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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

Quentin Crisp

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
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Another Destiny Fragment Love Person Some Undertake
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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Bullying Country Directory Flagrantly Gay Homophobic Listed Number Onslaught People Person Phone Refuse
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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Appear Art Change Choice Effect Human Inevitable Instrument Make Matter Politics Social Wise
Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Climate Cool Love Manner
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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Computer Congress Culture Epidermal Even Facility Featherless Home Nothing Our Overrarte
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
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
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
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Abatement Been Enemy Hostility Over Signify Through Won
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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Altruistically Basic Block Building Good Lie Manner Mutual Ofcourse People
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Deal Effort Extra Like Love Make One Out Understand
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success
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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Burn Empty Happy Say Laugh Learn Meant Room Said Told
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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