A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, nobody’s your friend.
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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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