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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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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 never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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