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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. ↗

— E. B. White

#absolutely #american #believes #else #himself

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ↗

— Edmund White

#experimental #i #i think #realism #sincerity

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

#america #contemporary #defensive #desire #did

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard. ↗

— Edmund White

#course #guard #me #off #own

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. ↗

— Edmund White

#editors #empty #ever #first #i

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. ↗

— Edmund White

#being #felt #hurt #i #life

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#exists #fantasy #fantasy world #mind #world

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. ↗

— Ellen G. White

#before #between #closely #counterfeit #delusion

I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #like #meet #position #really