I never say ‘No’ to anything.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Vice is its own reward.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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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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