Edmund White Quotes
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
