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?
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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Vice is its own reward.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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