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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
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My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.
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I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.
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I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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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.
