Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
QUENTIN CRISP
If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Vice is its own reward.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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