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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

Quentin Crisp

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
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
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Appetite Axiomatic Gratification People Revolt Shameless Share Take Witness
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
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Be Better Consider Describe Romantic Thing Will Worse
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Accept Already Also Emotional Expression Inevitable Masturbation Natural Outlet Regard Self
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Almost City Country Drench History Terrible Trouble
People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Heterosexual Homosexual Just People Sexual
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
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Country Do Expect Happiness Impression Live Not Time
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Grave Gunny Happen Life Me Thing Way
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Come End Have Interview Personality Stop
To lose is not always failure.
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Always Failure Lose
The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Accommodate Affair Before Happiest Learn Love Lover Maddening Moment Personality Place Take

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