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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Accepting Aware Being Challenges Change Consists Discovery Good Good Life Growth Idea Life Living Makes Personal Personal Growth Problems Solving Think Without Worth Worth Living I Think

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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Acquiring Better Call Conceived Experience Gaining Good Good Life Involves Life Like Mastery Material May Means Oneself Prospering Rewards Terms Thus Wealth Whether Work

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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Administration American American Dream Back Bringing Career Core Country Doing Dream Eventually Getting Good Good Life Having Hoping Idea Involved Job Leaders Life Older Other Succeed Thought Well Will

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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

~Edmund Spenser

Topics: Good Happy Ill Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretch

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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

~Edmund Waller

Topics: Bound Compass Fair Give Give Me Goes Good Me Narrow Rest Round Sun Take

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First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

~Edmund White

Topics: Africa Assimilate Because Christian Fight First Gay Gay Marriage Gays Good Good Thing Governments Like Marriage More Must Opposed Realized Right Russia Seemed Thing Thought Tyrannical Wanting Way Well Were A Good Thing

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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

~Edmund White

Topics: Back Caught Could Disciple Early Elusive Good Good Man He Least Life Looking Looking Back Loved Man Me Mother Once See Sense She Status Suppose Symbols Taught Though Transform True Were Whole Women I Can A Good Man

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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

~Edmund White

Topics: American French Good Refined Too Writer

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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

~Edmund White

Topics: Angry Books Boy City Few France French Friends Good Good Friends Got High Mentioned Mine Mocking New New York Once Pretty Relatives Review Ring Times Up Very Would Writer Wrote York

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I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Am American Better England Everybody Feel French Good Here Knowing Known Much Names Read Than Very I Am

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