I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was … - Edmund White

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I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it.

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Edmund White (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein) and his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997).

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Alternative Names: Edmund Valentine White III

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Charles used to say, “If God had meant boys to be fucked, he would have put a hole in their ass.

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.

I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it. - Edmund White

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