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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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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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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Blood tells - always remember that - blood tells.
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Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
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The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental physics indicates that it should be possible to compute even another billion times more efficiently. That would put the power of all of today's present computers in the palm of your hand. That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet.
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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...
