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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Quentin Crisp

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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After Dirt Four Get never Sweep Worse Year
Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
QUENTIN CRISP

Anything Ask Inside Look Outside Unpack
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
QUENTIN CRISP

Address Change Contempt Expand Universe Human Inhabited Outcast Side Suburb Time
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
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Absolute Appear Get Manner Swine Want Way
I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Bartender Leather Love Run Would Gone
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
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Another Destiny Fragment Love Person Some Undertake
To lose is not always failure.
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Always Failure Lose
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
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
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
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
If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand
The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Accommodate Affair Before Happiest Learn Love Lover Maddening Moment Personality Place Take
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Autograph From Installment Last Miss Obituary Serial

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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