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When I was young, I and the w...

When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.

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Keeping up with the Joneses w...

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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If you don't stay in some day...

If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

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I don't think you can really ...

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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Masturbation is not only an e...

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

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In England, the system is ben...

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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It's been agony but I couldn'...

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

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When I was young, we thought ...

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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As we all know from witnessin...

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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I asked a girl who came from ...

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." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

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Fashion is not style. Nay, we...

Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein.

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I like living in one room and...

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

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The war between the sexes is ...

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

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I had a friend who had two de...

I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'

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When asked to give advice, I ...

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

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I am a stereotype. I am an ef...

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

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Britain cherishes her eccentr...

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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As soon as a person takes a p...

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, last week I was a murderer, and the week before that I was a child molester, and the week before that I was a lunatic. But now I'm a homosexual."

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Every day someone notices me ...

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

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The message that 'love' will ...

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.

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