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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

Quentin Crisp

Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Anything Ask Inside Look Outside Unpack
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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Address Change Contempt Expand Universe Human Inhabited Outcast Side Suburb Time
If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Battery Day Recharge Shat Some
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Away Great Life Love Nobleman Oscar Through Throw Wide Young
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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Adolescence Drug Exhibitions Hook Kill Massive Novice Take
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Country Friend Nobisy One Liner Your
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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Appear Done Grown Ignoble Much Now Place Really Seem Stunningly Word
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Come End Have Interview Personality Stop
I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Eat Glad Hate Like Peas Them
The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Accommodate Affair Before Happiest Learn Love Lover Maddening Moment Personality Place Take
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Last Miserable Refuge Sex
I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Involvement Limit Live Minimum People Pleasanity Recommend Scant
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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Allow Availability Build Country English Hospital Only Realize Return Since Something University
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Ability Art Bool Cover Dance Illustrated Model School Tap Taught Tow Twenty Went World
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.
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Interior Involve Journey Search Style
I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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never No Nothing Say
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
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Adopt Also Appearance Art Artist Flamboyant Funny Look People Stuck True
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Amount Convey Information Maximum Minimum Music never Noise Seem Understand
The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Children Returnable Trouble
I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Being Force Have Imagine Keep never Orbit Planet Revolve Simple Stop Sudden
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Grave Gunny Happen Life Me Thing Way
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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Benigm Brutal Country Friendly Hostile People System
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Character Dab Euphemism Find Hand Intelligence Modify Powerless Weakness
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Deliberate Fashion Idiom Instead Maintain Personality Spontaneously Style

I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

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