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Quote by Quentin Crisp
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

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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Money
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This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. – Quentin Crisp

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Places
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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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Fathers
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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. – Angelo Patri

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Fathers

I love my father as the stars — he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. – Terri Guillemets

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Fathers

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. – Author Unknown

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Fathers

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much. – Hedy Lamarr

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred A. Allen

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After the game the King and pawn go into the same box. – Italian Proverb

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I dont believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. – Eric Schmidt

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We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a Jordanian model that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come. – King Hussein I

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