The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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 flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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