Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
QUENTIN CRISPThere 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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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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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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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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