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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

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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

~Edmund White

Topics: Art Biography Different Discovery Feels Fiction Means Organization Performance Performance Art Requires Research Say Sense Skills Wants Whereas

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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

~Edmund White

Topics: Authors Celebrities Comment Different Everything France Public Role Shows States Talk Talk Shows Very Want Writers

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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

~Edmund White

Topics: Assign Boy Different Friend Him His Holmes Idea Jack Life My Own Own Real Same Same Time Self Someone Story Take Time Totally Trajectory

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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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I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

~Eduardo Paes

Topics: Advancing Boring City Civilization Compare Different Fast God Our Phase Rio Thank Thank God Want

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Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

~Edvard Moser

Topics: Brain Child Cooperate Couples Different Manage Most Nothing Our Project Raising Really Third Us

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Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

~Edward Ball

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There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.

~Edward Ball

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Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

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