You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
QUENTIN CRISPKeeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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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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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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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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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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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