To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
QUENTIN CRISPThe worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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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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If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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If 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.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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