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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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never No Nothing Say
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Air Come Diagnosed Genius Grace Have Poverty Soho Suffer
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Absolute Appear Get Manner Swine Want Way
I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Being Force Have Imagine Keep never Orbit Planet Revolve Simple Stop Sudden
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Backward Doubt Forward Look Neither Regret
Vice is its own reward.
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Own Reward Vice
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Dehydrate Handsome Man Matter People Sexy Street Young
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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Age Assessment Face Key More never Nothing Only Steel Strain Work
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Come End Have Interview Personality Stop
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Assignation Been Fill House Lost System Vast Whole
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Day never Sawm Posts Youth
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Adopt Are Fashion When Know Who You
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
I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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Allow Availability Build Country English Hospital Only Realize Return Since Something University
Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Climate Cool Love Manner
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Account Hearer Journey Laugh Misfortunate Nothing Permit Pleasantly Shorten
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
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Character Dab Euphemism Find Hand Intelligence Modify Powerless Weakness
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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Happy Like Must Only Person That Truly Were World
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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All Being Century Damm Disco Listen Music Open Part Twentieth Worst
In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Country Friend Nobisy One Liner Your
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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