The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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