It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
QUENTIN CRISPIf I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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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 English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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