I never saw Portsmouth by day.
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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