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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Quentin Crisp

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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At All Housework Need To Do
People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Around Beautiful Cloth Come Dis Grandmother House Mother Out People Princess Say Six Swan
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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Build Fare Happy Pay Situation Strange Tell
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 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
The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
QUENTIN CRISP

Confront Fail Homosexual Love Man Out Problem Real Set Succeed Win
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,
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Become Cruelty Down Extreme Manliness Nature Pass Thing
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Cologne Diplomatic Euphemism Truth Unpleasant Wear
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Air Come Diagnosed Genius Grace Have Poverty Soho Suffer
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Cloth Condition Ever Fabric Indeed Indifferent Most Much Our Part Though Too
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Adopt Are Fashion When Know Who You
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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All Being Century Damm Disco Listen Music Open Part Twentieth Worst
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
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Another Destiny Fragment Love Person Some Undertake
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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Become Evening First Long Money Need Reason Say Second Something Third Write Writer
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Change Get Involve never Some Want You

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