The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
QUENTIN CRISPAn autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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?
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Vice is its own reward.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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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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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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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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