Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
QUENTIN CRISPA fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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