I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
QUENTIN CRISPWell, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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 don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Assoon 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.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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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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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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