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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off. ↗

— Barry White

#me #off #preacher #turned

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell. ↗

— Barry White

#barry white #company #launch #out #put

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent. ↗

— Barry White

#came #cat #chops #cops #detectives

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ↗

— Edmund White

#experimental #i #i think #realism #sincerity

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. ↗

— Ellen G. White

#before #between #closely #counterfeit #delusion

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. ↗

— Gilbert White

#forest #much #parish #taking #vast

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ↗

— Gilbert White

#deer #harm #herds #injury #large

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them. ↗

— Jack White

#i #i think #itself #know #love

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun. ↗

— Jack White

#everyday #everyday people #fun #i #i think