You know, if you're hopeful, if you're even a little bit ha… - Michael Cunningham

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You know, if you're hopeful, if you're even a little bit happy about something that might happen, it doesn't affect the outcome. You could still give yourself a period of optimism, even if it all falls apart.

Michael Cunningham

The Snow Queen · May 6, 2014 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.

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