The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
QUENTIN CRISPWhile 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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