Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
QUENTIN CRISPIf 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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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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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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