Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
QUENTIN CRISPNeither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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 never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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