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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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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. – Quentin Crisp

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Happiness
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. – Quentin Crisp

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Change
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – George Orwell

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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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All art requires courage. – Anne Tucker

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If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. – Stephen Hawking

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My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. – Joseph Barbera

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