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QUENTIN CRISPI don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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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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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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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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