Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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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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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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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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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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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