No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
QUENTIN CRISPI never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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