You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
QUENTIN CRISPThe key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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