The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.


Edmund Leach

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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
EDMUND WHITE
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e...
EDMUND WHITE
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof...
EDMUND WHITE
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ...
EDMUND WHITE
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'...
EDMUND WHITE
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
EDMUND WHITE
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also t...
EDMUND WHITE
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,...
EDMUND WHITE
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE
Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
EDMUND WHITE
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
EDMUND WALLER
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
EDMUND WALLER
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
EDMUND WALLER
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but wh...
EDMUND WALLER
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
EDMUND WALLER
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
EDMUND WALLER
Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
EDMUND WALLER
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
EDMUND WALLER
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
EDMUND WALLER
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to the...
EDMUND WALLER
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still m...
EDMUND WALLER
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
EDMUND WALLER
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
EDMUND WALLER
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
EDMUND WALLER
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
EDMUND WALLER
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
EDMUND WALLER