If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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I 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.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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