Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
QUENTIN CRISPThe more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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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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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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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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