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.
QUENTIN CRISPKeeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, “Would you like to make an appointment?”
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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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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Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say ‘Can I make up?’ and he would say ‘Oh yes – tinted?’, or he would say, ‘Oh yes – clotted?’
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