Men get laid, but women get screwed.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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