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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.

Quentin Crisp

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Country Do Expect Happiness Impression Live Not Time
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Almost City Country Drench History Terrible Trouble
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
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Change Get Involve never Some Want You
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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At All Housework Need To Do
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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Bore Know Parent Problem Real Sin Thought Unemployability
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
The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Capacity More People Love Stretch
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
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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Consume Emotion Entitle Faithful Husband Jealousy Know People Witness
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
I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Bartender Leather Love Run Would Gone
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Accept Already Also Emotional Expression Inevitable Masturbation Natural Outlet Regard Self
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Consist Disease Health Neighbour One Same
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You

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