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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 more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Happiness One Liner Only Thing Understand
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Country Friend Nobisy One Liner Your
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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