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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Autobiography
Quentin Crisp

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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Police
Quentin Crisp

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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Flirting
Quentin Crisp

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Life and Living
Quentin Crisp

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Manners are love in a cool climate.
Manners
Quentin Crisp

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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Parents and Parenting
Quentin Crisp

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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Sex
Quentin Crisp

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
Law and Lawyers
Quentin Crisp

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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
Extremes and Extremists
Quentin Crisp

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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Knowledge
Quentin Crisp

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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Desire
Quentin Crisp

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun