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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”

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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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To lose is not always failure.
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Always Failure Lose
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Bartender Kill Love Truly
Manners are love in a cool climate.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Curiosity Encourage Individuality Neighbour Should Tribute
I’ve never not been famous.
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Been Famous never
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Character Consist Develop Move Self Sorely Sufficiency Toward

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