Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISPYou will survive if you believe in yourself.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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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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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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