If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
QUENTIN CRISPThe measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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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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The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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