Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISPFor flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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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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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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The 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.
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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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