To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
QUENTIN CRISPVice is its own reward.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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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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