A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
QUENTIN CRISP
Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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