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,
QUENTIN CRISP
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISP