You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
QUENTIN CRISPThere is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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