You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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