If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
QUENTIN CRISPThe … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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