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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

Quentin Crisp

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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All Despise Disappoint Everybody Forgive Know Realize
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Life Love Relationship
If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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All Being Go Talent
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Dehydrate Handsome Man Matter People Sexy Street Young
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success
The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Capacity More People Love Stretch
I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Again Anything Do Have never Spend Time Tomorrow
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Be Better Consider Describe Romantic Thing Will Worse
I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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Being Friend Invite Limited Made Yes
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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Another Concentrate Dislike Help Homosexually Mainstream Men One People
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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Bullying Country Directory Flagrantly Gay Homophobic Listed Number Onslaught People Person Phone Refuse
You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Accept Anyone Country Deal Way
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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Book Etiquette Inch Monastery More Nothing Person Rapidly Read
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Appetite Axiomatic Gratification People Revolt Shameless Share Take Witness
People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Heterosexual Homosexual Just People Sexual

You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

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