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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Quentin Crisp

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Accommodate Affair Before Happiest Learn Love Lover Maddening Moment Personality Place Take
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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Being Friend Invite Limited Made Yes
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Know Love never One People Room
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Grave Gunny Happen Life Me Thing Way
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Life Love Relationship
When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Anything Ask Gay Mother never Shall Tell
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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Favour Frequently Little Messy Overrated Say Unnecessary Vastly
It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Agony Been Could Done Have Other Way
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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Bartender Leather Love Run Would Gone
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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Children Dry Land Made Mother Out Realize Return Soon Step Trouble Womb
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Account Hearer Journey Laugh Misfortunate Nothing Permit Pleasantly Shorten
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Address Change Contempt Expand Universe Human Inhabited Outcast Side Suburb Time
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Always Conform Problem Rebel Same Time Young
The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Age Assessment Face Key More never Nothing Only Steel Strain Work
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent

Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

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