Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISPThe young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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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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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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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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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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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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