I never say ‘No’ to anything.
QUENTIN CRISP
I 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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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 simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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