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 CRISPFashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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