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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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