If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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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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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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.
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