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.
QUENTIN CRISPThe more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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