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I never say ‘No’ to anything.

Quentin Crisp

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
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
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
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Deal Effort Extra Like Love Make One Out Understand
The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Capacity More People Love Stretch
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
To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Blessing Live Miss Opportunity Pass Today Tomorrow
Ask 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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Ask Blame No Praise Then Yourself
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Believe Survive Yourself
It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Agony Been Could Done Have Other Way
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Get Laid Man Screw Women
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
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
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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Computer Congress Culture Epidermal Even Facility Featherless Home Nothing Our Overrarte
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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Any Attempt Buy Cease Complain Crown Distaste Kie Lamentation Life Loudness Martyr Measure Occupation Part Persistent Price Pursuit Reduced Woman

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