To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
QUENTIN CRISPHowever low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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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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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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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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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.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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