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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

~Quentin Crisp

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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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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

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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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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 25th, 1908

Died: November 21st, 1999

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