To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
QUENTIN CRISPThe English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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