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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.

Quentin Crisp

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
QUENTIN CRISP

Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Day never Sawm Posts Youth
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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Children Dry Land Made Mother Out Realize Return Soon Step Trouble Womb
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
QUENTIN CRISP

Become Cruelty Down Extreme Manliness Nature Pass Thing
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
QUENTIN CRISP

Ask Blame No Praise Then Yourself
I’ve never not been famous.
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Been Famous never
I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Again Anything Do Have never Spend Time Tomorrow
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Almost City Country Drench History Terrible Trouble
You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Dammed Door Lady Open Person Yourself
Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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After Dirt Four Get never Sweep Worse Year
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
You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Accept Anyone Country Deal Way
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Accept Already Also Emotional Expression Inevitable Masturbation Natural Outlet Regard Self
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Difficult Done Find Idea Inflammatory Religious Terrifying Understand Wany
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Consist Disease Health Neighbour One Same
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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Favour Frequently Little Messy Overrated Say Unnecessary Vastly

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