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Edmund White

"Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes."

-- Edmund White

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“It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until the recent history, permission was required for us to be able to share work at any sort of scale. We had to get permission from galleries, from ad agencies or photo editors to be able to have our work out there. And now anybody with access to a computer can show their work in 200 countries around the world.”

Source : Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, bermangraphics.com. 2011.
“To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.”

Source : Elspeth Huxley (2011). “The Mottled Lizard”, p.105, Random House
“Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.”
“That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.”
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”
“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”
“More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.”
“If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.”

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