I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
QUENTIN CRISPWhat would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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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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