Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISPAn autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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 don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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