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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

Quentin Crisp

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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Children Dry Land Made Mother Out Realize Return Soon Step Trouble Womb
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
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
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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Bullying Country Directory Flagrantly Gay Homophobic Listed Number Onslaught People Person Phone Refuse
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Average Day Depravity Direct Express Family Fully Life People Person Price Single Starred Story Violence
The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Age Assessment Face Key More never Nothing Only Steel Strain Work
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Cool Flavor Instant Peel Sex Stuff Superdsede
The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Children Returnable Trouble
I’ve never not been famous.
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Been Famous never
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
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
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Happy Like Must Only Person That Truly Were World
The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Addict Arisen Arm Country Gymnastics Longer Men Nation People Practice Side
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Between Both Enemy One Only Regularly Sex Side Sleep War Which
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Autograph From Installment Last Miss Obituary Serial
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

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