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The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Band Been Best Best Part Competitions Concert County Dance Department Did Formed High High School Lead Music Must Orchestra Part Played Region School Students Them Trumpet Well

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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Almost Been Democrats Democrats And Republicans Home Home Ownership Keen Make National Ownership Purpose Republicans Very

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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

~Edmund S. Muskie

Topics: Ambitious Been Crossed Funny Jobs Mind Never

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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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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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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

~Edmund White

Topics: Been Bohemia Burning Burning Desire Business Business World Choose Comfort Confess Desire Different Different Person Entirely Eyes Had Hard Impelled Justify Live Myself Never New New York Others Over Person Poverty Soft Straight Toward Turned Understand World Would Writing York

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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

~Edmund White

Topics: Arbitrary Bed Beds Been Constructed Fell Fifties Great Had Heated How Just Normality Onto Our Rose Seeming Sixties Triumph Twin Up Water

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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

~Edmund White

Topics: Accept America American American Spirit Been Case Come Convincing Did Equality Fair Fair Play Families Gay Had Leaders Like Made Mainstream Marriage Marriage Equality Play Rights Same Should Spirit Straight Were Why

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Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.

~Edmund White

Topics: Any Been Case Changes Correct Ever Few Gay History Imagine No Reason Notion Politically Politically Correct Rapidly Readers Readership Reason Since Suit Will Within Writers

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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Been Detail Examined Felt Gay Great Had Handed Impelled Life Me Never Novel Read Record Say Scarcely Strange Subject Though Truth Wrote

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