Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way, and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said, "If you truly love me, kill the bartender."

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Quentin Crisp: "Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way, and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said, "If you truly love me, kill the bartender.""

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Bartender	Because	Become	Brave
Cruel	Cruelty	Denizens	Down
Extreme	Gathered	Gone	Kill
Largest	Leatheriest	Love	Manliness
Nature	Passed	Tavern	Things
Together	Town	Truly	Where

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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way, and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said, "If you truly love me, kill the bartender." - Quentin Crisp