One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
QUENTIN CRISPAsk yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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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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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 measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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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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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.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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