The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
QUENTIN CRISPI take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Vice is its own reward.
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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