One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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What 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.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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