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.
QUENTIN CRISPI’ve never not been famous.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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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.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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