You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
QUENTIN CRISPHe knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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