I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPDevelopment of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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