Edmund White Quotes
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.
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Now pray tell me what Time is? ...Time (to speak abstractedly) is the continuance of any Thing in its own Being. But some Things continue longer in their Beings than others... Time absolutely... is Quantity, as admitting in some Manner the chief Affections of Quantity: Equality, Inequality, and Proportion...
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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
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If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.
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And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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The thing that's really surprising everybody is his composure on the mound. The way he handles himself on the field, you wouldn't think he's 19 years old.
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Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
