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• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

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  Winter, Thinking, Long

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• Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Biography, Comedy, Drama, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

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  Real, Men, Winning

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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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  Marriage, Swans, Want

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• 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?"

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  Bullying, Gay, Phones

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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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  Love, Weekend, Promise

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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. 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.

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  Love, Sex, Destiny

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• If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

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  Family, Average, Missing

  "Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations". Book by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, 2008.

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• 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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  God, Order, Giving

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• The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

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  Love, Party, Rocks

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• 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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  Mean, Enemy, Threat

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• Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

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  People, Had Enough, Mass

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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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.

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  Funny, Mother, Jobs

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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• The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

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  Journey, Long, Style

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• Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

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  Soul, Forgiving, Survival

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• The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

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  Blessing, Atheism, Looks

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• Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

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  Humor, Getting What You Want, Way

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• 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, Grace, Genius

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• 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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  Block, Lying, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Wise, Art, Choices

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• I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.

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  Thinking, Way, Emotion

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.

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  Hands, Desire, Purpose

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 16, 1968.

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• I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

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  Tomorrow, My Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Character, Power, Hands

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• 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. 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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  Plato, Boys, Names

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