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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

— Quentin Crisp The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

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I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony.

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As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can’t leave anything alone."

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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