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Edmund White

"These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected."

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"These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"The last good time always comes."

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"I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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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 the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be."
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"Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard."
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"These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected."
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"I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique."
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"Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization."
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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 America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire."
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"The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors."
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"I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit."
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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 though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc."
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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 the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together."
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