To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISPYou fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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To lose is not always failure.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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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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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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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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