Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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