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.
QUENTIN CRISPFlowers are words even a baby can understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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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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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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