"I'd rather come back with a few transcendent……" — Edmund White
"I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots."
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59 Quotes by Edmund White
Edmund White has 59 quotes on this site.
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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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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 think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique
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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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More Album Quotes
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That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other…
— Sebastian Bach
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I…
— Adele
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
— Aaliyah
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely…
— Adele
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
— Aaliyah
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All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out…
— Jello Biafra
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
— Mary J. Blige
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I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK…
— Bono
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when…
— Bono
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
— Christina Aguilera
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work…
— David Bowie
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