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:
QUENTIN CRISPNeither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Vice is its own reward.
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What 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.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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