You will survive if you believe in yourself.
QUENTIN CRISPNever get involved with someone who wants to change you
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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