The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
QUENTIN CRISPThe curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
QUENTIN CRISPBecause 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,
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
QUENTIN CRISPHowever low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
QUENTIN CRISPWhen asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
QUENTIN CRISPI 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.
QUENTIN CRISPSex is the last refuge of the miserable.
QUENTIN CRISPI never say ‘No’ to anything.
QUENTIN CRISPYou don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
QUENTIN CRISPMen get laid, but women get screwed.
QUENTIN CRISPWhat 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.
QUENTIN CRISPThe young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
QUENTIN CRISPI’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
QUENTIN CRISPThe happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
QUENTIN CRISPLook 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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