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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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By Quentin Crisp
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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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"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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"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
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"The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once."
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"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"
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"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways i"
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"Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery"
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yiel"
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"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those"
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"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the"
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