I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you truly love me, kill the bartender.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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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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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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