I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
QUENTIN CRISPThe formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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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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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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