The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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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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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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