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.
QUENTIN CRISPWomen have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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To lose is not always failure.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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