A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISPThe curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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