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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Children Returnable Trouble
I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Dammed Door Lady Open Person Yourself
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Another Destiny Fragment Love Person Some Undertake
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Heterosexual Homosexual Just People Sexual

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