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.
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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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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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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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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 my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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