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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.

Quentin Crisp

If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Favour Frequently Little Messy Overrated Say Unnecessary Vastly
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Appear Art Change Choice Effect Human Inevitable Instrument Make Matter Politics Social Wise
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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Achieve Disaster Formula never Relationship Simple Successful Treat Trivialities
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Anything Extend Hard Love Men Unlovable
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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Altruistically Basic Block Building Good Lie Manner Mutual Ofcourse People
I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Burn Empty Happy Say Laugh Learn Meant Room Said Told
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
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Computer Congress Culture Epidermal Even Facility Featherless Home Nothing Our Overrarte
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Cloth Condition Ever Fabric Indeed Indifferent Most Much Our Part Though Too
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Come End Have Interview Personality Stop
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
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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Ability Art Bool Cover Dance Illustrated Model School Tap Taught Tow Twenty Went World
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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However Level Low Man never Police Reach Sink
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
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

It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.

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