For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
QUENTIN CRISPWhen asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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