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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

Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Anything Ask Inside Look Outside Unpack
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
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Consume Emotion Entitle Faithful Husband Jealousy Know People Witness
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
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Abandon Concentration Define Efforts Require Else Enormous Everything Happiness
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
What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Bore Know Parent Problem Real Sin Thought Unemployability
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
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

Accept Already Also Emotional Expression Inevitable Masturbation Natural Outlet Regard Self
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
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Backward Doubt Forward Look Neither Regret
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Ability Art Bool Cover Dance Illustrated Model School Tap Taught Tow Twenty Went World
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
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
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Air Come Diagnosed Genius Grace Have Poverty Soho Suffer
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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All Explain Give Little Relationship Require Take Untrue

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