I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
QUENTIN CRISPHappiness is the only thing I understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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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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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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