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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.

Quentin Crisp

Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Baby Even Flower Understand Word
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Decide Great Mistake Nicer People Women
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Character Consist Develop Move Self Sorely Sufficiency Toward
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Life Love Relationship
It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Ballet Big Dancer Farm Go Meant Pig Really Run Say Style Thirty Year
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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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand
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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Admit Ask Been Burn Came Candle Country Drama Empty English Girl Out Room School She Taught Teach
I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Ashamed Being Gay Proud Really Something Sone Think
He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Back Bleat Curtain Drag Drawn Life Love Name People Person Room
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 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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Achieve Disaster Formula never Relationship Simple Successful Treat Trivialities
I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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never No Nothing Say
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Day never Sawm Posts Youth
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Backward Doubt Forward Look Neither Regret
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.
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Confront Fail Homosexual Love Man Out Problem Real Set Succeed Win

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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