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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

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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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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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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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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. – Author Unknown

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My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. – Hank Williams, Jr.

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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. – Prince Of Wales Charles

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