I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
QUENTIN CRISPThe English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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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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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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