I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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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 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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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