Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Vice is its own reward.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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