It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
QUENTIN CRISPIn an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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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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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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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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If you don’t stay in some days, you can’t recharge your batteries.
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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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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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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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