When asked, ‘Shall I tell my mother I’m gay?’, I reply, ‘Never tell your mother anything.
QUENTIN CRISPYou will survive if you believe in yourself.
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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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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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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 have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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