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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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