The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
QUENTIN CRISPLife was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To lose is not always failure.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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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