I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
QUENTIN CRISPTo love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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