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

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Source : Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press, 1994.

Edmund White

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Avenging Quotes

“Where did the love come from? What was it made of?”
“Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.”
“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.”

Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.
“I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.”
“When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it...And that's the way it is.”

Source : Song: That's The Way It Is, 1999
“For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.”

Source : "Out of the traps" by Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2005.
“In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy.”
“In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.”

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