“Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.” WayYearsIdeasMightLastsCausesViewsDangerPoint Of ViewStuckTrendsLast YearNoveltyGimmicks Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America
“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 notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.” Has BeensMightAbleWantedWinningAttentionCourtNotionMight Have BeenSpoiled Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together” MightTogetherYoungIdentityExcuseTeenagerExcuse Me Author:Edmund White
“I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be” WantWritingMightGamesChallengesNovelBiographiesArbitrary Author:Edmund White
