The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
QUENTIN CRISPI’ve never not been famous.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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