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.
QUENTIN CRISPIt’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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