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Quentin Crisp Quotes

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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) 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!  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being man  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) The low dive had set a standard that only middle aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy meets girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents one must undertake to bring them up  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn’t give enough  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) 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 Quotes) Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin  (Quentin Crisp Quotes) Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh  (Quentin Crisp Quotes)
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