It 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 CRISPQuentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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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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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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