Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISPFlowers are words even a baby can understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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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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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 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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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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