Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
QUENTIN CRISPThe 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.
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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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 really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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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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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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