If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPIf at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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