"I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and……" — Edmund White
"I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique"
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59 Quotes by Edmund White
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the…
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Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for…
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I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.
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What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and…
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at…
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't…
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book…
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge…
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Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is…
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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…
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
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