Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
QUENTIN CRISPI don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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