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.
QUENTIN CRISPFor flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it’s vastly overrated, it’s frequently unnecessary, and it’s messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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