Edmund White Quotes
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I take my work seriously.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
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A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
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Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
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Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
