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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Believe Survive Yourself
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Benigm Brutal Country Friendly Hostile People System
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
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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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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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Father Mother Protect Threatened World
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Become Cruelty Down Extreme Manliness Nature Pass Thing
When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Anything Ask Gay Mother never Shall Tell

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