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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

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
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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Appear Done Grown Ignoble Much Now Place Really Seem Stunningly Word
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
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
I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Ashamed Being Gay Proud Really Something Sone Think
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
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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Happy Like Must Only Person That Truly Were World
I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Involvement Limit Live Minimum People Pleasanity Recommend Scant
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Backward Doubt Forward Look Neither Regret
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Computer Congress Culture Epidermal Even Facility Featherless Home Nothing Our Overrarte
The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Capacity More People Love Stretch
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
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Character Consist Develop Move Self Sorely Sufficiency Toward
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

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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