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
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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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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He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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