It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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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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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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 never say ‘No’ to anything.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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