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.
QUENTIN CRISPAssoon 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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To lose is not always failure.
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