You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
QUENTIN CRISPMen get laid, but women get screwed.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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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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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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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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