It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
QUENTIN CRISPIf I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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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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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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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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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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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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