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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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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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:

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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.

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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.

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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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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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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.

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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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?’

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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?’
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.

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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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