we become the stories we tell ourselves - Michael Cunningham

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All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Michael Cunningham

we become the stories we tell ourselves

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Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I? I was a nineteen-year-old and I was in love with Louis and I was in love with you, and I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful as the sight of you walking out a glass door in the early morning, still sleepy, in your underwear. Isn't it strange?

Beautiful, Love, Love You, Morning, Nineteen

The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a love complex and ravenous, ancient, neither this nor that. It will serve as this afternoon's manifestation of the central mystery itself, the elusive brightness that shines from the edges of certain dreams; the brightness which, when we awaken, is already fading from our minds, and which we rise in the hope of finding, perhaps today, this new day in which anything might happen, anything at all.

Day, Dream, Hope, Kissing, Love, Virginia

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Part, Perfect, Perfection, Promise, Seemed, Singular

What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me & incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Everybody, Gone, Owe, People, Thinking, Two

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head

Feels, Head, Like, Should, Writer, Writing

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