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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

— Quentin Crisp Manners from Heaven (1984)

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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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