Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.

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.

- Edmund White

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

- Edmund White

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding …

- Edmund White

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

- Edmund White

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

- Edmund White

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized o…

- Edmund White

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

- Edmund White

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.

- Edmund White

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

- Edmund White