The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you truly love me, kill the bartender.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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