However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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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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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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