Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
QUENTIN CRISP
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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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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