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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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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
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
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
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Appetite Axiomatic Gratification People Revolt Shameless Share Take Witness
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
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
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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Bullying Country Directory Flagrantly Gay Homophobic Listed Number Onslaught People Person Phone Refuse
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
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Assignation Been Fill House Lost System Vast Whole
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Curiosity Encourage Individuality Neighbour Should Tribute
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Alone Down Drag Father Full Kepp Level Mother People Realize Time Until Year
If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Accept Already Also Emotional Expression Inevitable Masturbation Natural Outlet Regard Self
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Country Down Gdrag Keep Level never People Person
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Dehydrate Handsome Man Matter People Sexy Street Young
Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Happiness One Liner Only Thing Understand
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Believe Survive Yourself
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Day never Sawm Posts Youth
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Abandon Concentration Define Efforts Require Else Enormous Everything Happiness
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Consist Disease Health Neighbour One Same
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Change Get Involve never Some Want You
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Consume Emotion Entitle Faithful Husband Jealousy Know People Witness
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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Ask Blame No Praise Then Yourself
The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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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
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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