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.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
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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.
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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.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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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 like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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