To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISPAn autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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