It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
QUENTIN CRISPI 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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The 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.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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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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