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I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.

Edmund White's Popular Quotes

Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

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The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

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At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

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Ive 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.

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I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

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