"Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable."

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Edmund White

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Views Quotes

“I cant really imagine life without Formula One,”
“I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.”
“I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”
“[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it.”
“My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.”
“You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.”
“I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.”
“The machine invades me all day.”

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