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 CRISPThe 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?”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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