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• Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
• Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
• If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse…
• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
• The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone…
• You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
• What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you…
• This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
• Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I…
• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in…
• Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block…

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