In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
QUENTIN CRISPDevelopment of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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 war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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