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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.

Quentin Crisp

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Country Do Expect Happiness Impression Live Not Time
Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Decide Great Mistake Nicer People Women
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Get Laid Man Screw Women
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
In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Country Friend Nobisy One Liner Your
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Father Mother Protect Threatened World
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Always Anyone Last Longer Love Wary Weekend
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
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Life Love Relationship
People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Around Beautiful Cloth Come Dis Grandmother House Mother Out People Princess Say Six Swan
I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Eat Glad Hate Like Peas Them
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Being Consume Deliberate Desire Hand Human Most Other Person Plant Some
I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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never No Nothing Say
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
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Between Both Enemy One Only Regularly Sex Side Sleep War Which
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success

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