Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
QUENTIN CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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