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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installme...  
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opp...  
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.  
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.  
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to pee...  
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.  
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.  
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pl...  
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which ...  
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.   Success
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a ...  
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those wh...  
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take....  
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is ...  
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but no...  
Men get laid, but women get screwed.  
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with...  
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.  
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than rea...  
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes ...  
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual g...  
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.  
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant the...  
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you sho...  
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" po...  
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.  
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we h...  
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at t...  
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you n...  
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four year...  
This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that...  
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.  
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand...  
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.   Forgiveness
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed wi...  
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a wo...  
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence...  
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country unde...   Life