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How Quotes by Edmund White
- In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
- I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
- Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the…
- I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and…
- The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up…
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- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
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- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash