I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
QUENTIN CRISPSex is the last refuge of the miserable.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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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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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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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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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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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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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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If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
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