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.
QUENTIN CRISPThe search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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 spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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