Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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