If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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 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 was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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