Edmund White Quotes
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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All I've done all my life is disobey.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.
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Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.
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Cigarette holder,which wigs me,over her shouldershe digs me:Out cattin'that Satin Doll.
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It's not cool ... or it's not cool enough. The world is getting warmer, that's all there is to it. I want you guys to stop this. I want you to change the world.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.