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.
QUENTIN CRISPLove is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may 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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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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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