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Edmund White Quotes

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1940

Topics

Truth Experience Me Writing Way Own

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Best Day Man I Can Try Best Man

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

Baseball Treat Game Big TV Taking

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

Think Madness Way Out Us Mine

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Jennifer Aniston

Life Mad Know Real Real Life Get

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

History Tomorrow Slavery Story You

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

End Done Conviction Things Started

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

First Exit Polls Almost His After

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Positive Myself Challenge Me Better

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Back Cultures Reflect Iconic Our

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

Presidency Both Foreshadowed Nixon

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Rose Schneiderman

Teeth Old Iron Torture Inquisition

What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I'm not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that's why I'm going to keep going.

Time Keep Going Looking Right Time

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