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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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Atheist Audience Believe Catholics Country God Northern People Protestants Said Stood Took Woman Yes
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
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Decide Great Mistake Nicer People Women
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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At All Housework Need To Do
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Father Mother Protect Threatened World
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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Allow Availability Build Country English Hospital Only Realize Return Since Something University
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Benigm Brutal Country Friendly Hostile People System
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
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Always Anyone Last Longer Love Wary Weekend
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Consist Disease Health Neighbour One Same
You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Accept Anyone Country Deal Way
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Country Do Expect Happiness Impression Live Not Time
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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However Level Low Man never Police Reach Sink
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
The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Confront Fail Homosexual Love Man Out Problem Real Set Succeed Win

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