To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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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 a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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