Edmund White Quotes
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
Edmund White
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
Nathan Fillion
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
Kate Christensen
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
Jack Lemmon
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian
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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark
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'You don't go by odds. You know what's coming. You've seen the cards already.' She studied his face intently. 'No, you can't be cold-decked. It wouldn't be possible.'
Philip K. Dick
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If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.
Jerrod Carmichael
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A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
Roger Jon Ellory
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
Saadi
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
Edmund White
