To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISP
The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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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 British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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 never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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