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.
QUENTIN CRISPTo live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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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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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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