In England, nobody’s your friend.
QUENTIN CRISPBecause 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,
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The 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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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