It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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.
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To lose is not always failure.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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