You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
QUENTIN CRISPI 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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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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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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