If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
QUENTIN CRISPBelieve in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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And were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man’s soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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In England, nobody’s your friend.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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