“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?” ThinkingFirstsWellsMightTodayImaginationMemoriesChildhoodEssentialsAdultsRootsOur ChildrenExtremesInstanceRadicalFedsProfessionalismEccentricity Author:Edmund White
“The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.” PeopleImaginationConsolationAdmission Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.” IfsMenWantChildrenAbleTurnsCoursesLosesImaginationBehindsVirtueProductsLoversWeightForgottenHeavyTricksWelcomeDisguiseStubbornMy ImaginationFrogsExteriorLose WeightUp To DateRight ManShoppers Author:Edmund White
“What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.” BookBeautifulImaginationViewsSeriousCriticismReputationMusingsPosthumous Book:The Burning Library: Essays Source: The Burning Library: Essays
