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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

~Edmund White

Topics: After Common Deal Egotistical Gay Goofy Man Men Monster Something Trying Women

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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 medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

~Edmund White

Topics: Afford Aids Could Early Early 1990S Every Everywhere Geared Had Headed How Island Key Late Man Many Medical Men People Remember Saw Seemed Sick Stores Supply Tranquillity Warmth Were West Who I Can 1990S 1980S

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If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

~Edmund White

Topics: Beach Been Covered Far Floor Golfer Grass Imported Key Most Out Person Sand Sea Shallow Until Water Way West You

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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

~Edmund White

Topics: After Also Back Bouquet Century Dies Every Flower Flowers Great Grows House Huge Key Like New New York Once Place Plant Produces Robot West Where While Yellow York Your

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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

~Edmund White

Topics: Cowboy Father He John John Wayne Sort Wayne Worked Young

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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

~Edmund White

Topics: Amazon Best Books Chocolate Drops Find Grandfather Look Named People Since Sometimes South Southern Tradition Up Valentine White Iii

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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Approach Basically Clothes Drag Eating Even Gone Gone With The Wind Historical Lot Maybe Modern Novelists Old People Putting Research Sort Taking Them Who Wind

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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

~Edmund White

Topics: Alive Deeper Details Fan Imagination Imaginative Imagined Line Oftentimes Richer Suggest Than Would You

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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Ambitious Make Money Published

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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always College Saying Socialist

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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