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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.

Quentin Crisp

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Assignation Been Fill House Lost System Vast Whole
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.
QUENTIN CRISP

Achieve Disaster Formula never Relationship Simple Successful Treat Trivialities
I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISP

Bartender Leather Love Run Would Gone
I’ve never not been famous.
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Been Famous never
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.
QUENTIN CRISP

Allow Availability Build Country English Hospital Only Realize Return Since Something University
The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
QUENTIN CRISP

Interior Involve Journey Search Style
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISP

Country Down Gdrag Keep Level never People Person
If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISP

Bartender Kill Love Truly
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
QUENTIN CRISP

Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Ballet Big Dancer Farm Go Meant Pig Really Run Say Style Thirty Year
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Anything Egomaniac Fair Share Starvation
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Admit Ask Been Burn Came Candle Country Drama Empty English Girl Out Room School She Taught Teach
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Appear Art Change Choice Effect Human Inevitable Instrument Make Matter Politics Social Wise
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Autograph From Installment Last Miss Obituary Serial
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?’
QUENTIN CRISP

Being Friend Invite Limited Made Yes
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISP

Father Mother Protect Threatened World

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