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If you can't get it right, you say, Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication because, of course, astrology is rubbish.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":78,"quote_text":79,"author_id":5,"source_id":42,"has_image":43,"author":80,"source":81,"quote_tag":82,"commentary":83},4025951,"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nThis quote is likely from Quentin Crisp's book \"The Naked Civil Servant\" (1968), a memoir that chronicled his life as a flamboyant and openly gay man in post-war England. 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