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 CRISPFlowers are words even a baby can understand.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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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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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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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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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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