There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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To lose is not always failure.
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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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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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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