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.
QUENTIN CRISPHealth consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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