You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, nobody’s your friend.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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