Edmund White Quotes
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.
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I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
