The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
QUENTIN CRISPI have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Vice is its own reward.
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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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