While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
QUENTIN CRISPLife was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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