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 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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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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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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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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