For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
QUENTIN CRISPIt 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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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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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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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 English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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