In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
QUENTIN CRISPManners are love in a cool climate.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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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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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I 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.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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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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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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To lose is not always failure.
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