To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
QUENTIN CRISPTo love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
QUENTIN CRISPThere are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
QUENTIN CRISPThe trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISPWomen have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
QUENTIN CRISPBecause 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,
QUENTIN CRISPIf I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISPI never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
QUENTIN CRISPIt 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 CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISPI take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
QUENTIN CRISPLook inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
QUENTIN CRISPIn an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
QUENTIN CRISPTo live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISP