I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
QUENTIN CRISPHowever low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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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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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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