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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

Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Happiness One Liner Only Thing Understand
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Day never Sawm Posts Youth
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
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
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Adopt Are Fashion When Know Who You
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Amount Convey Information Maximum Minimum Music never Noise Seem Understand
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Life Love Relationship
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Favour Frequently Little Messy Overrated Say Unnecessary Vastly
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
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
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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Always Conform Problem Rebel Same Time Young
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
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
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
You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Accept Anyone Country Deal Way

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