In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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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.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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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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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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