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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

Quentin Crisp

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Cloth Condition Ever Fabric Indeed Indifferent Most Much Our Part Though Too
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.
QUENTIN CRISP

Build Fare Happy Pay Situation Strange Tell
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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Addict Arisen Arm Country Gymnastics Longer Men Nation People Practice Side
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Anything Egomaniac Fair Share Starvation
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Almost City Country Drench History Terrible Trouble
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
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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Back Bleat Curtain Drag Drawn Life Love Name People Person Room
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
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
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Another Destiny Fragment Love Person Some Undertake
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Difficult Done Find Idea Inflammatory Religious Terrifying Understand Wany
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
The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Age Assessment Face Key More never Nothing Only Steel Strain Work
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
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
In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Country Friend Nobisy One Liner Your
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Ask Blame No Praise Then Yourself
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.
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Burn Empty Happy Say Laugh Learn Meant Room Said Told
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Last Miserable Refuge Sex
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
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Baby Even Flower Understand Word
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
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
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Consist Disease Health Neighbour One Same
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Country Down Gdrag Keep Level never People Person
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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Amaze Back Later Myself Pay Recieve Sitting Som Substantial Sum Talk

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