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If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

~Edmund White

Topics: Accepted Adopt Anyone Anyone Else Because Bigots Defining Else Fully Gay Gay Marriage Gays Institution Like Marriage Marry Must Never Oppose Them Until Will

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Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Activity Agreed Because Characters Dialogue Everyone Feels Generic Highly Like Much Partly Perilous Same Seems Sex Sounds Swamp Tacky Threatens Which Writing

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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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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

~Edmund White

Topics: Against Because Being Bohemian Fight Fighting Gay Gay Marriage Gays How Knew Marriage Much Never Old-Fashioned Opposed Originally People Possibility Religious Religious Right Right Saw Sixties Straight Thought Too Very Were Worth

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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

~Edsger Dijkstra

Topics: Because Effective Extremely Formal Joys Life Methods Rewarding Teaching Use Youngsters

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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

~Edsger Dijkstra

Topics: Because Competitive Concept Days Excellence Explicitly Fashionable Heading Mentioned Notion Perfection Spirit

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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

~Eduard Shevardnadze

Topics: Achieve After Anger Another Another Way Because Bloodshed Came Conclusion Control Emergency Find Full Impossible Nearly Needed Out Second State Street Thought Way Were Why Without I Came

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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

~Eduard Shevardnadze

Topics: Because Believe Condition Countries Current Financing Foreign Foreign Countries Georgia Government Help May New New Government Only Other Situation Source Temporarily I Believe I Believe That

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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

~Eduard Shevardnadze

Topics: Because Dance Happen Immediate Interests Making Pay Salaries Serve Song Tomorrow Will

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