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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.

Quentin Crisp

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Being Human Mariage Married State Such Unnatural
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
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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Deal Effort Extra Like Love Make One Out Understand
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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Benigm Brutal Country Friendly Hostile People System
When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Anything Ask Gay Mother never Shall Tell
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
If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Bartender Kill Love Truly
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Account Hearer Journey Laugh Misfortunate Nothing Permit Pleasantly Shorten
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
QUENTIN CRISP

Become Cruelty Down Extreme Manliness Nature Pass Thing
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Father Mother Protect Threatened World
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Computer Congress Culture Epidermal Even Facility Featherless Home Nothing Our Overrarte
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Assignation Been Fill House Lost System Vast Whole
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
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 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

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