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Been Quotes by Quentin Crisp
- Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
- Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told…
- 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.
- 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…
- It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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