I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Vice is its own reward.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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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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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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