I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
QUENTIN CRISPThe very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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