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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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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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”

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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?

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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.

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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.

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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To lose is not always failure.

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To lose is not always failure.
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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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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.

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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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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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