People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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