You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
QUENTIN CRISPAbatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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.
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To lose is not always failure.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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