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| In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. | | Uncategorized | |
| In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor. | | Uncategorized | |
| Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? | | Uncategorized | |
| It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. | | Relationships | |
| It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. | | Uncategorized | |
| Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say ''Phooey,'' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed. | | Uncategorized | |
| Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave | | Uncategorized | |
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| Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. | | Uncategorized | |
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| My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Never get involved with someone who wants to change you | | Uncategorized | |
| Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. | | Uncategorized | |
| Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. | | Uncategorized | |
