I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
QUENTIN CRISPMen get laid, but women get screwed.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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