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!
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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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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To lose is not always failure.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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