Men get laid, but women get screwed.
QUENTIN CRISPI never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’ve never not been famous.
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While 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.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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