"The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past."

-- Edmund White

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“You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.”
“Iâ€™m lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether Iâ€™m working or whether Iâ€™m playing.”
“I love color and I love to dress like a woman.”
“Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops”
“'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.”
“My style is to go in there... and kill the guy, you know”
“I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.”
“Be yourself & you can be anything.”

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