The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
QUENTIN CRISPI never saw Portsmouth by day.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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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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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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 love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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