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Quentin Crisp

The British do not expect hap...

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

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Quentin Crisp

The poverty from which I have...

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

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Quentin Crisp

The young always have the sam...

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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Quentin Crisp

Health consists of having the...

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

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Quentin Crisp

There are three reasons for b...

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

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Quentin Crisp

An autobiography is an obitua...

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

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Quentin Crisp

Love is not enough. It must b...

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

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Quentin Crisp

In an expanding universe, tim...

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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Quentin Crisp

There is no need to do any ho...

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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Quentin Crisp

It is not the simple statemen...

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

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Quentin Crisp

Though intelligence is powerl...

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

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Quentin Crisp

Vice is its own reward. It is...

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

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Quentin Crisp

For flavor, instant sex will ...

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

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Quentin Crisp

The very purpose of existence...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

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Quentin Crisp

It is explained that all rela...

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.

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Quentin Crisp

Euphemisms are unpleasant tru...

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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Quentin Crisp

I simply haven't the nerve to...

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.

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Quentin Crisp

It may be true that artists a...

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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Quentin Crisp

If Mr. Vincent Price were to ...

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

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Quentin Crisp

Never get involved with someo...

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

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