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.
QUENTIN CRISPDevelopment of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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