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.
QUENTIN CRISPIn England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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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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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Vice is its own reward.
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