Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISPHealth consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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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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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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