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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Quentin Crisp

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
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Adopt Are Fashion When Know Who You
To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Blessing Live Miss Opportunity Pass Today Tomorrow
I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Burn Empty Happy Say Laugh Learn Meant Room Said Told
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
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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Adolescence Drug Exhibitions Hook Kill Massive Novice Take
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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Altruistically Basic Block Building Good Lie Manner Mutual Ofcourse People
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Baby Even Flower Understand Word
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Able Being Decide Fashion Perpetuate Style 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
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Difficult Done Find Idea Inflammatory Religious Terrifying Understand Wany
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Cloth Condition Ever Fabric Indeed Indifferent Most Much Our Part Though Too
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Favour Frequently Little Messy Overrated Say Unnecessary Vastly
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Ask Blame No Praise Then Yourself
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Get Laid Man Screw Women
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Absolute Appear Get Manner Swine Want Way

Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

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