Gleanings from The Naked Civil Servant

[felis_ultharus]

"Never try to keep up with the Joneses...drag them down to your level. It's cheaper!"
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"The time comes for everyone to do deliberately what he used to do by mistake . . . If you are effeminate by nature, you have to find some way of telling the world that you know you are, otherwise they keep telling you."
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"The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children."
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"By the time I was twenty-eight, I had tired of the experience [of being fired]. I easily found a way of preventing its recurrence. I gave up work."
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"For the first time I was forced to admit that other people existed. It was not a discovery I welcomed."
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"...it was still some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I already knew who won."
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And on war rationing: "When war was declared, I bought two pounds of henna."