Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
QUENTIN CRISPYou don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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