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.
QUENTIN CRISPWhy get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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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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Vice is its own reward.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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