I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
QUENTIN CRISPMen get laid, but women get screwed.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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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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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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