You will survive if you believe in yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you truly love me, kill the bartender.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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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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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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