The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Vice is its own reward.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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