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.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Vice is its own reward.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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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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