If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPIf love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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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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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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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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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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