The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
QUENTIN CRISPFlowers are words even a baby can understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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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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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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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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To lose is not always failure.
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