It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.


Cecily White

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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's ag...
SHAUN WHITE
I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place l...
SHAUN WHITE
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE
It is amazing how generous people really are. This has really been a great thing.
ALAN WHITE
Our strategy is to focus on those areas where we can have a good competitive advantage, so we do thi...
ALAN WHITE
It's too bad that the taxpayers have to bear the brunt of additional bills,
ALAN WHITE
Obasanjo has absolutely no control over this guy, ... like a head of state down there.
ALAN WHITE
It is a great relief to finally have won our first game, especially against such a strong side as Ro...
ALAN WHITE
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
HALE WHITE
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art ...
HALE WHITE
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no dange...
HALE WHITE
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe...
EDMUND WHITE
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...
EDMUND WHITE
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, i...
EDMUND WHITE
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, a...
EDMUND WHITE
Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it...
EDMUND WHITE
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE
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
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