You will survive if you believe in yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPPolitics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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