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 never say ‘No’ to anything.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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,
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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