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I am convinced that only the very stupid and the very selfish have any hope for happiness.


Carl White

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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 I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking...
RON WHITE If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my...
RON WHITE I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
PATRICK WHITE It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the...
GILBERT WHITE I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools o...
T.H. WHITE It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot affo...
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