The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
QUENTIN CRISPIf I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Vice is its own reward.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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