You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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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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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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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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