Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
QUENTIN CRISPAnd were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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