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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Quentin Crisp

The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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Interior Involve Journey Search Style
I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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Being Friend Invite Limited Made Yes
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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Adolescence Drug Exhibitions Hook Kill Massive Novice Take
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Decide Great Mistake Nicer People Women
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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Atheist Audience Believe Catholics Country God Northern People Protestants Said Stood Took Woman Yes
I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Involvement Limit Live Minimum People Pleasanity Recommend Scant
The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Capacity More People Love Stretch
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
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
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
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 I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Baby Even Flower Understand Word
People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Heterosexual Homosexual Just People Sexual
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Country Down Gdrag Keep Level never People Person
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 recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

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