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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Crisp

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
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
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Adopt Are Fashion When Know Who You
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Between Both Enemy One Only Regularly Sex Side Sleep War Which
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Character Dab Euphemism Find Hand Intelligence Modify Powerless Weakness
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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Become Evening First Long Money Need Reason Say Second Something Third Write Writer
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Being Human Mariage Married State Such Unnatural
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
He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Back Bleat Curtain Drag Drawn Life Love Name People Person Room
If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Battery Day Recharge Shat Some
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
In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Country Friend Nobisy One Liner Your
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Cool Flavor Instant Peel Sex Stuff Superdsede
I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Burn Empty Happy Say Laugh Learn Meant Room Said Told
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
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Adopt Also Appearance Art Artist Flamboyant Funny Look People Stuck True

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