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I’ve never not been famous.

Quentin Crisp

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Deal Effort Extra Like Love Make One Out Understand
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
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
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Autograph From Installment Last Miss Obituary Serial
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Happy Like Must Only Person That Truly Were World
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
The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Addict Arisen Arm Country Gymnastics Longer Men Nation People Practice Side
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Last Miserable Refuge Sex
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
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
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
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
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Character Consist Develop Move Self Sorely Sufficiency Toward
Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Anything Ask Inside Look Outside Unpack
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
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

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