"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

-- Aristotle

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“[Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.”
“We need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.”
“What really made me want to get involved in politics was seeing the rise of the antichrist Donald Trump. I started to see how he was energizing the country, but he was energizing the country in total opposite ways than Barack did. He wasn't bringing people together; he was literally tearing people apart. He literally wants to build a wall while I feel like Barack Obama's rise actually built bridges.”
“This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.”

Source : On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases II.II.18 (on Tuberculosis)
“Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.”
“Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.”
“I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.”
“I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.”

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

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