Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
QUENTIN CRISPI take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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