Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
QUENTIN CRISPMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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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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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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