Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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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 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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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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To lose is not always failure.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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