I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
QUENTIN CRISPTo love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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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 at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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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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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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