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Quentin Crisp

" Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. "

Men

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" You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. "

Mother , Country , Grave , Open , Fire

" 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. "

Successful , Disaster , Formula

" The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. "

Happiness , Desire , Development , Character , Life

" 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. "

Happiness , Right , Want , Time

" Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. "

Sex

" Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. "

Nothing , Journey

" 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. "

Sin , Nothing , Reading

" Men get laid, but women get screwed. "

Men

" The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress. "

Law , Dress , Expediency

" Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. "

Men

" The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. "

Talent , Poverty

" The trouble with children is that they're not returnable. "

Children , Trouble

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