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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

~Edmund White

Topics: Bankrupt Blackout City Dangerous Days Either Everyone Frightening Garbage Led Long Major Most Nation New New York Noon Normal Piled Rest Sanitation Seemed Services Slept Strikes Till Time Up Without Workers York 1970S

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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

~Edmund White

Topics: Gets However Intense Lasts Life Lived New New York Nothing York

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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

~Edmund White

Topics: Able Boy Case City Describe Effect Events Gay Growing Individual Liberation Life Mainly Memories Mine My Own Own Particular Personal Political Truly While Writing

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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

~Edmund White

Topics: Death Dying Things Think Used Very I Think

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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

~Edmund White

Topics: All Day All Night Business Day Father Go He Large Leave Night People Ran See Slept Staff Stayed Them Things Up Who Would

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My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

~Edmund White

Topics: Bad Bad Thing Beauty Effect Had Having Honesty Interested Making Me More Mother Name Psychiatric Some Story Terribly Than Thing Think Truth Ways Writer

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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

~Edmund White

Topics: Brought Celebrity Even Eyes Happiness How Literary Little My Own Own Saw

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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

~Edmund White

Topics: Land Leave Like Paris You

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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

~Edmund White

Topics: American Because Could Cute English Everyone French Go He Living Model Out Paris Speak Suddenly Used Who

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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

~Edmund White

Topics: Beautiful Because Binding Books Child Cover Edges Enough Gold Had Kid Like Liked Look Love Loved Make Marble Me Pretty Reason White You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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