In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today — well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?


Chapter Four (p. 92) - A Boy's Own Story (1982)

Edmund White Quotes

In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later...

In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later...

In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later...

In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later...