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.
QUENTIN CRISPNever keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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