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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

Quentin Crisp

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
QUENTIN CRISP

Become Evening First Long Money Need Reason Say Second Something Third Write Writer
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
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
QUENTIN CRISP

Last Miserable Refuge Sex
If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
QUENTIN CRISP

Battery Day Recharge Shat Some
Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Climate Cool Love Manner
Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Abatement Been Enemy Hostility Over Signify Through Won
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
QUENTIN CRISP

Achieve Disaster Formula never Relationship Simple Successful Treat Trivialities
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
I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
QUENTIN CRISP

Burn Empty Happy Say Laugh Learn Meant Room Said Told
I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
QUENTIN CRISP

Being Friend Invite Limited Made Yes
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
QUENTIN CRISP

Account Hearer Journey Laugh Misfortunate Nothing Permit Pleasantly Shorten
I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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never No Nothing Say
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
QUENTIN CRISP

Know Love never One People Room
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
QUENTIN CRISP

Deliberate Fashion Idiom Instead Maintain Personality Spontaneously Style
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISP

Father Mother Protect Threatened World

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