To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
QUENTIN CRISPAnd were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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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.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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