What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
QUENTIN CRISPThe search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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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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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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