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
QUENTIN CRISPI’ve never not been famous.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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 poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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