Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
QUENTIN CRISPYou don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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 English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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