Quote by Quentin Crisp
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. – Quentin Crisp

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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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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you cant think what to do with the long winter evenings. – Quentin Crisp

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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. – Hesiod

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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other peoples places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

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Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. – Louise Beal

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Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

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With all due respect to lawyers, its wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on. – Sonny Bono

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