It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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.
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Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:
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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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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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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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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Keeping 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.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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