You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Our 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.
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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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