The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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The 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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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 never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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