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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

Quentin Crisp

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Appetite Axiomatic Gratification People Revolt Shameless Share Take Witness
I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
QUENTIN CRISP

Involvement Limit Live Minimum People Pleasanity Recommend Scant
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Get Laid Man Screw Women
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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All Being Century Damm Disco Listen Music Open Part Twentieth Worst
The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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Interior Involve Journey Search Style
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Cool Flavor Instant Peel Sex Stuff Superdsede
The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Children Returnable Trouble
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Being Human Mariage Married State Such Unnatural
I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Again Anything Do Have never Spend Time Tomorrow
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
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Account Hearer Journey Laugh Misfortunate Nothing Permit Pleasantly Shorten
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?’
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Being Friend Invite Limited Made Yes
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Accommodate Affair Before Happiest Learn Love Lover Maddening Moment Personality Place Take
What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Happy Like Must Only Person That Truly Were World

I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

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