Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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 like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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