In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
QUENTIN CRISPExhibitionism 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 had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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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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