When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.Quentin Crisp
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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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 a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head . . .
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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