If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
QUENTIN CRISPIf love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
QUENTIN CRISPYou don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
QUENTIN CRISPWhat would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
QUENTIN CRISPNothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
QUENTIN CRISPDevelopment of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISPHowever low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISPThe curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
QUENTIN CRISPTo my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISPNothing 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.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, nobody’s your friend.
QUENTIN CRISPMainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
QUENTIN CRISPOf course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
QUENTIN CRISPWhy get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
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