The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
QUENTIN CRISPIn Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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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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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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