The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
QUENTIN CRISPNeither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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 never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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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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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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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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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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