Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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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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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 trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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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 curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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