If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISPQuentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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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