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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

Quentin Crisp

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
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
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Anything Egomaniac Fair Share Starvation
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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Air Come Diagnosed Genius Grace Have Poverty Soho Suffer
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Absolute Appear Get Manner Swine Want Way
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
Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Abatement Been Enemy Hostility Over Signify Through Won
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
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Believe Can Fate Forward Learn See You
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
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
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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Ballet Big Dancer Farm Go Meant Pig Really Run Say Style Thirty Year
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Adopt Are Fashion When Know Who You
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Being Human Mariage Married State Such Unnatural
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Character Consist Develop Move Self Sorely Sufficiency Toward
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
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Consume Emotion Entitle Faithful Husband Jealousy Know People Witness
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Dehydrate Handsome Man Matter People Sexy Street Young
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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All Being Century Damm Disco Listen Music Open Part Twentieth Worst
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Address Change Contempt Expand Universe Human Inhabited Outcast Side Suburb Time
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
It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Build Fare Happy Pay Situation Strange Tell
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Away Great Life Love Nobleman Oscar Through Throw Wide Young
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
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Admit Ask Been Burn Came Candle Country Drama Empty English Girl Out Room School She Taught Teach
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

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