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“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

“If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant