To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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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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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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