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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.

Quentin Crisp

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Central Fence Garden Laid Lawn Left Man Neighbour Observe Ook Over Path Round Side Were
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
QUENTIN CRISP

Deal Effort Extra Like Love Make One Out Understand
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Country Down Gdrag Keep Level never People Person
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
QUENTIN CRISP

Abandon Concentration Define Efforts Require Else Enormous Everything Happiness
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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Amount Convey Information Maximum Minimum Music never Noise Seem Understand
I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Involvement Limit Live Minimum People Pleasanity Recommend Scant
I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Being Force Have Imagine Keep never Orbit Planet Revolve Simple Stop Sudden
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
QUENTIN CRISP

Bullying Country Directory Flagrantly Gay Homophobic Listed Number Onslaught People Person Phone Refuse
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
QUENTIN CRISP

Adolescence Drug Exhibitions Hook Kill Massive Novice Take
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Another Destiny Fragment Love Person Some Undertake
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Curiosity Encourage Individuality Neighbour Should Tribute
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
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
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISP

Character Consist Develop Move Self Sorely Sufficiency Toward
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.
QUENTIN CRISP

Alone Down Drag Father Full Kepp Level Mother People Realize Time Until Year

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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