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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.


T.H. White

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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 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 I think things for us are really coming together at this point. Our distance events are getting much...
AARON WHITE We're going to win -- I promise you.
AARON WHITE