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.
QUENTIN CRISPIf you truly love me, kill the bartender.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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I’ve never not been famous.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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