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Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.

~Edmund White

Topics: Administration Barack Been Come Community Decision Demographic Educated Election Equality Favour Favours Gay Gay Marriage Group His Historic Isolated Making Marriage May Noises Obama Occasion Out Precisely Some Time Young

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In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

~Edmund White

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful Woman Believed Boarding Boarding School Boy Could Fell Help Her Hills Knew Love Marilyn Marilyn Monroe Michigan Middle Monroe Most Most Beautiful Need Pain School Sent She Sophomore Sophomore Year Unhappy Where Woman World Year

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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 it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

~Edmund White

Topics: Age Although Back Closest Crucial Early Encouragement Giving Giving Up Go Grants Hard Judge Late Life Looking Looking Back More Most My Own Needed Novelist Ought Own People Period See Some Supporting Thirties Twenties Up Very Who Worth I See

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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

~Edmund White

Topics: Allowed Being Crime Easier Gay Gays Group Had History Illness Key Leap Liberation Life Like Made Make Maybe Mental Mental Illness Minority Modern Moment Much People Riots Sin Something Themselves Thought Throughout Us Were Which

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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

~Edmund White

Topics: Been Books Class Epoch Every Group Had Immigrant New New York Saga Social Social Class Subject Thousands York

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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 get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Anything Despised Get Involved Learn Long Narrow-Minded Old Old People Only People Provincial Reason Stayed Stupid World You Young Young People

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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Always Atheist Bee Busy Dark Death Dying Earth Except Fairly Feel Going Happier Heaven Keen Little Long Most Much Nights Occasionally People Protracted Should Soul Than Thought I Feel

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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

~Edmund White

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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

~Edmund White

Topics: Because Beginning Century Combination Endure Episodic Form Hundred Hundred Years Know Length Limit Masterpiece Narrative Novel Only Rigorous Solitude Town Unprecedented Very Will Years

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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

~Edmund White

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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