Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
QUENTIN CRISPEuphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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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 don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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