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.
QUENTIN CRISPI never saw Portsmouth by day.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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