It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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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 English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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To lose is not always failure.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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