Abatement 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.
QUENTIN CRISP
The 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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Abatement 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.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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 like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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