While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
QUENTIN CRISPIs not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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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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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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