Edmund White Quotes
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
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The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
