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.
QUENTIN CRISPI never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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 have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Vice is its own reward.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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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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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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