I never say ‘No’ to anything.
QUENTIN CRISPThe search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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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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