People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
QUENTIN CRISPFlowers are words even a baby can understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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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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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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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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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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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 curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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