If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
QUENTIN CRISPNothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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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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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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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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