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To lose is not always failure....

To lose is not always failure.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

I have known female whores who...

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. 'If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in.' But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

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The world now seems a stunning...

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

Style, in the broadest sense o...

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

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Exhibitionists have no friends...

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.

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Fear and hatred do not seem to...

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

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My outlook was so limited that...

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

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What I wanted most of all was ...

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

All this cut-price transcenden...

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in C...

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

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What is privacy if not for inv...

What is privacy if not for invading?

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Other-cheekism is not only a w...

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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People are not heterosexual or...

People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.

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When asked, 'Shall I tell my m...

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

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As a test of the closeness of ...

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

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Vice is its own reward....

Vice is its own reward.

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The worst part of being gay in...

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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Keeping up with the Joneses wa...

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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I am the last of Britain's sta...

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

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The programs constantly repeat...

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....