You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
QUENTIN CRISPTo lose is not always failure.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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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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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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