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If you’re after a quick glimpse of how Edmund White frames the idea of rising, these nine snippets give you just that. The selection is small, but each line carries his signature literary edge, offering a clear sense of his perspective without overwhelming you.

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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were…

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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where…

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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people.…

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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon…

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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in…

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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students…

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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been.…

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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although…

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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of…

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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and,…

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First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the…

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From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and…

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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back…

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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only…

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“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of…

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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her…

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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on…

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