I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
QUENTIN CRISPIf a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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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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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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