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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Then my hostess said, Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.
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What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
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Mr Melly had to be obscene to be believed
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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Vice is its own reward.
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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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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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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb ... I realized that I had made a mistake,
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Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I became one of the stately homos of England.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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There is no great Dark Man !!!
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation.
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Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
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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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It is no longer possible to be exotic.
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The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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Any film is at least better than real life.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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You're queer, I'll kill you.' I could only ask if the speaker wanted an appointment.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing.
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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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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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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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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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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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