In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
QUENTIN CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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 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?
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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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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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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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 love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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