When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
QUENTIN CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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To lose is not always failure.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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