What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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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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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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