Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
QUENTIN CRISPOur 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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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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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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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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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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