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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.

Quentin Crisp

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Average Day Depravity Direct Express Family Fully Life People Person Price Single Starred Story Violence
When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Anything Ask Gay Mother never Shall Tell
I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Ashamed Being Gay Proud Really Something Sone Think
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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Bullying Country Directory Flagrantly Gay Homophobic Listed Number Onslaught People Person Phone Refuse
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Know Love never One People Room
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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Central Fence Garden Laid Lawn Left Man Neighbour Observe Ook Over Path Round Side Were
Vice is its own reward.
QUENTIN CRISP

Own Reward Vice
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Accept Already Also Emotional Expression Inevitable Masturbation Natural Outlet Regard Self
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Admit Ask Been Burn Came Candle Country Drama Empty English Girl Out Room School She Taught Teach
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Backward Doubt Forward Look Neither Regret
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Being Consume Deliberate Desire Hand Human Most Other Person Plant Some
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Air Come Diagnosed Genius Grace Have Poverty Soho Suffer
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Always Anyone Last Longer Love Wary Weekend
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Country Do Expect Happiness Impression Live Not Time
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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Happy Like Must Only Person That Truly Were World
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Account Hearer Journey Laugh Misfortunate Nothing Permit Pleasantly Shorten
Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Dehydrate Handsome Man Matter People Sexy Street Young
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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Able Being Decide Fashion Perpetuate Style Way
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
QUENTIN CRISP

All Being Century Damm Disco Listen Music Open Part Twentieth Worst
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Failure First May Style Success
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Actor Country Every Evry Flat Inattentive Possibly Potential Stage Surface Unemoloy Waiter
To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISP

Blessing Live Miss Opportunity Pass Today Tomorrow
The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Children Returnable Trouble
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Almost City Country Drench History Terrible Trouble
You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Believe Survive Yourself
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
QUENTIN CRISP

Always Conform Problem Rebel Same Time Young
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
QUENTIN CRISP

Adolescence Drug Exhibitions Hook Kill Massive Novice Take

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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