If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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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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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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