The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
QUENTIN CRISPOne should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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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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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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 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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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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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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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