The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISP
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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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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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Vice is its own reward.
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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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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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