If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISPAs 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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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