Quote by Quentin Crisp
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. - Que

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

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Teenagers
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I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. – Quentin Crisp

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Attachment
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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. – Quentin Crisp

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relationship
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

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Verbing weirds language. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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“Seize the day” drains dignity from “Carpe diem.” – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010, about translation

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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