You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
QUENTIN CRISPI 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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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 really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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