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:
QUENTIN CRISPIf 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.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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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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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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