Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
QUENTIN CRISPI never say ‘No’ to anything.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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 curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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