However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISPMasturbation 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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