An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
QUENTIN CRISPI never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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