The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
QUENTIN CRISPThe war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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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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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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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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