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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

~Edmund White

Topics: Books Could Esteem Even Feel Fiction Good Most My Own Only Own Thing Those Work Written I Feel

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I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Cook Could Everybody Good Profession Quite Says Think Though I Think

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Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

~Edmund White

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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.

~Edmund White

Topics: Am Believe Convinced Even Excuse Explain Falls Feel Gay Guilty Her Keeps Like Love Me Myself Obstinacy Passion Pure Scarcely Silly Sounds Woman I Am I Feel

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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.

~Edmund White

Topics: Although Atheist Be Different Character Decade Different Each Man Novel Others Own People Progressive Really Remember Russian Should Someone Suppose Thought Till Typical I Remember 1920S

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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

~Edmund White

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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