Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISPIt may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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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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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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