In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
QUENTIN CRISP
It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I don’t think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn’t something you’ve done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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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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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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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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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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