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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Father Mother Protect Threatened World
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Ability Art Bool Cover Dance Illustrated Model School Tap Taught Tow Twenty Went World
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Deliberate Fashion Idiom Instead Maintain Personality Spontaneously Style
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
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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Anything Ask Inside Look Outside Unpack
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
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Always Anyone Last Longer Love Wary Weekend
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Grave Gunny Happen Life Me Thing Way
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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Being Friend Invite Limited Made Yes
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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Able Being Decide Fashion Perpetuate Style Way
The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Children Returnable Trouble
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Know Love never One People Room
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Abandon Concentration Define Efforts Require Else Enormous Everything Happiness
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Ask Blame No Praise Then Yourself
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Another Destiny Fragment Love Person Some Undertake

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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