You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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 war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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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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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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