Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
QUENTIN CRISPYou can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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