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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Appalling Existence Glow Opinion Other Ourselves People Purpose Reconcile Thing Think
It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Ballet Big Dancer Farm Go Meant Pig Really Run Say Style Thirty Year
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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All Being Century Damm Disco Listen Music Open Part Twentieth Worst
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Ability Art Bool Cover Dance Illustrated Model School Tap Taught Tow Twenty Went World
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
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Favour Frequently Little Messy Overrated Say Unnecessary Vastly
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Cologne Diplomatic Euphemism Truth Unpleasant Wear
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
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Abandon Concentration Define Efforts Require Else Enormous Everything Happiness
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
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
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Know Love never One People Room
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 never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Day never Sawm Posts Youth
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
I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Being Force Have Imagine Keep never Orbit Planet Revolve Simple Stop Sudden

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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