"I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out."

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Source : "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". The Review of Contemporary Fiction Interview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. Fall 1996.

Edmund White

#Avant Garde Quotes #Sincerity Quotes #Realism Quotes

“Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.”
“I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.”
“Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.”
“We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013
“It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (1870). “Man and Wife: A Novel”, p.150
“With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.”
“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 14, 2014

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