Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
QUENTIN CRISPIf I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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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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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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