I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
QUENTIN CRISPI’ve never not been famous.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Vice is its own reward.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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