To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
QUENTIN CRISPTo live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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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 what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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 war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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