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.
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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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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