"The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War."

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Source : States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

Edmund White

#Sex Quotes #Hate Quotes #War Quotes

“Goals determine what you are going to be”
“I recognize no empire of this present age.”
“We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.”

Source : Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”
“I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.”
“Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.”
“It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.”
“I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.”

Source : " Euro 2012: Mario Balotelli threatens to 'kill' banana-throwing fans" by Marcus Christenson, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2012.

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