Vice is its own reward.
QUENTIN CRISPDevelopment of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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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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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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