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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

Quentin Crisp

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
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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At All Housework Need To Do
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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Children Dry Land Made Mother Out Realize Return Soon Step Trouble Womb
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Book Etiquette Inch Monastery More Nothing Person Rapidly Read
And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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Diagonality Garden Left Look Lost Originality Other Right Soul Were
You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Dammed Door Lady Open Person Yourself
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Amaze Back Later Myself Pay Recieve Sitting Som Substantial Sum Talk
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
I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Again Anything Do Have never Spend Time Tomorrow
The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Capacity More People Love Stretch
The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Any Attempt Buy Cease Complain Crown Distaste Kie Lamentation Life Loudness Martyr Measure Occupation Part Persistent Price Pursuit Reduced Woman
I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Ashamed Being Gay Proud Really Something Sone Think
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Being Consume Deliberate Desire Hand Human Most Other Person Plant Some
To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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All Despise Disappoint Everybody Forgive Know Realize
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

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