In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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