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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Quentin Crisp

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Appalling Existence Glow Opinion Other Ourselves People Purpose Reconcile Thing Think
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
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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Amaze Back Later Myself Pay Recieve Sitting Som Substantial Sum Talk
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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Alone Down Drag Father Full Kepp Level Mother People Realize Time Until Year
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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Average Day Depravity Direct Express Family Fully Life People Person Price Single Starred Story Violence
To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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All Despise Disappoint Everybody Forgive Know Realize
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
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
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
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
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Actor Country Every Evry Flat Inattentive Possibly Potential Stage Surface Unemoloy Waiter
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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Interior Involve Journey Search Style
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
If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
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

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