No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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To lose is not always failure.
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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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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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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother’s womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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