I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
QUENTIN CRISPYou must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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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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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
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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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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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