Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, nobody’s your friend.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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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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