An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
QUENTIN CRISPHealth consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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It 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.
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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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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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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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