Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
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I really do hope 'The Hate U Give' provides mirrors for readers who don't often get them in books. I've had so many young black girls tell me just how thrilled they are to see someone who looks like them on the cover. I hope that they see themselves in the pages as well.
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I need a woman who is secure and loves herself first. Then she can share that love and light with me.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
Colson Whitehead -
The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.
