"Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?"

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Source : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Michael Cunningham

#Visionaries Quotes

“When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.”
“I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.”
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“In today's society, people use those qualities - I call them qualities - for all things. It is for self-gratification. It is for sex. It is for excitment. This kind of fervor servers it's own purpose. It doesn't obey rules. It runs amok. You see it on the news everyday, but society cannot hang it's moral and ethical values on me to survive. i do what I must in all ways, and I'm proud of it. The necessity to be myself passes all moral barriers.”
“I think work is the world's greatest fun.”
“I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.”
“My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.”
“I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.”

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