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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

— Quentin Crisp

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

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

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

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

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

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

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

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

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