Edmund White Quotes

No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A Candle, Two Candles, A Row Of Twenty, Until The Lens Pulled Back To Reveal An Entire Votive Stand Exhaling A Hundred Thin Lines Of Smoke As A Terraced Offering Before The Shrine. In This Religion Hidden Lights Had Been Declared Superior To Those That Glared. Somewhere I Was Storing Up Merit, Accumulating The Credit I'd Need To Buy, One Day, The Salvation I Longed For. Until Then (and It Was A Reckoning That Could Be Forestalled Indefinitely, That I Preferred Putting Off) I'd Live In That Happiest Of All Conditions: The Long But Seemingly Prosperous Courtship. It Was A Series Of Tests, Ever More Arduous, Even Perverse. For Instance, I Was Required To Deny My Love In Order To Prove It.

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

Edmund White Quotes: No Sooner Would Such A Temptation Present Itself Than I Would Smother It. The Effect Was Of Snuffing Out A

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