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.
QUENTIN CRISPExhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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In 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.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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