I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
QUENTIN CRISPI like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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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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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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’ve never not been famous.
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