Happiness is the only thing I understand.
QUENTIN CRISPOur clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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