Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
QUENTIN CRISPNothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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