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Thinking Quotes by Quentin Crisp
- The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
- The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden…
- 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…
- Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you…
- I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't…
- Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on…
- The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- 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…
- Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.
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