In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
QUENTIN CRISPIf 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Vice is its own reward.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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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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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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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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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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