Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
QUENTIN CRISPMen get laid, but women get screwed.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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There 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.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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 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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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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