Manners are love in a cool climate.
QUENTIN CRISPIt is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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