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.
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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