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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.

Quentin Crisp

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Adopt Also Appearance Art Artist Flamboyant Funny Look People Stuck True
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Believe Survive Yourself
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Backward Doubt Forward Look Neither Regret
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Build Fare Happy Pay Situation Strange Tell
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Central Fence Garden Laid Lawn Left Man Neighbour Observe Ook Over Path Round Side Were
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Average Day Depravity Direct Express Family Fully Life People Person Price Single Starred Story Violence
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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All Explain Give Little Relationship Require Take Untrue
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Alone Down Drag Father Full Kepp Level Mother People Realize Time Until Year
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.
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Deliberate Fashion Idiom Instead Maintain Personality Spontaneously Style
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Amount Convey Information Maximum Minimum Music never Noise Seem Understand
It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Agony Been Could Done Have Other Way
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
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.
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Become Evening First Long Money Need Reason Say Second Something Third Write Writer
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
Vice is its own reward.
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Own Reward Vice

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