I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
QUENTIN CRISPNever sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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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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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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