I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
QUENTIN CRISPThe more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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