You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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