I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
QUENTIN CRISPThe trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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