Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
QUENTIN CRISPWhen asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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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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And 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.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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