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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

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Cool Flavor Instant Peel Sex Stuff Superdsede
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
QUENTIN CRISP

Appetite Axiomatic Gratification People Revolt Shameless Share Take Witness
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Last Miserable Refuge Sex
To lose is not always failure.
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Always Failure Lose
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
QUENTIN CRISP

Bullying Country Directory Flagrantly Gay Homophobic Listed Number Onslaught People Person Phone Refuse
The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
QUENTIN CRISP

Confront Fail Homosexual Love Man Out Problem Real Set Succeed Win
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
QUENTIN CRISP

Always Conform Problem Rebel Same Time Young
People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Heterosexual Homosexual Just People Sexual
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Away Great Life Love Nobleman Oscar Through Throw Wide Young
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
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
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISP

Father Mother Protect Threatened World
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Character Dab Euphemism Find Hand Intelligence Modify Powerless Weakness
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
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
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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