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" Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. "
Quentin Crisp
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" Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. "
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" I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. "
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" 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. "
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" Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. "
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" Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. "
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