If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world, I would say that the men wanted to be amused the girls sought vindication
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.Quentin Crisp
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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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 you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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