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QUOTATION:The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
ATTRIBUTION:Quentin Crisp (b. 1908), British author. first broadcast (Aug. 6, 1991). “Love Lies Bleeding,” New Statesman and Society (Aug. 9, 1991).
 
 
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