I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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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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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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