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.
QUENTIN CRISPNever keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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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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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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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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