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“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”
― Barbara Hall

“I did not know that a reputation for wit is earned not by making jokes, but by laughing at the pleasantries of others.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

“When I was a child my ineptitude was a burden to my parents and my teachers. They could not see that it was a greater burden to me. I wondered wanly if I would ever discover how to do anything well. At long last I have learned something even better - how not to do anything at all.”
― Quentin Crisp

“If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant