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.
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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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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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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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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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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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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