Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
QUENTIN CRISPWhat my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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