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You can behave as badly as yo...

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

I'm happy. I don't ever have ...

I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

The Scots are very hospitable...

The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

I don't think I have a tragic...

I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

The proprietor had hair so re...

The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

Rome did not create a great e...

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

It's written into the Constit...

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

Men get laid, but women get sc...

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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It's no good running a pig far...

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

If at first you don't succeed,...

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

To lose is not always failure....

To lose is not always failure.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

I have known female whores who...

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. 'If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in.' But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

The world now seems a stunning...

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.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

Style, in the broadest sense o...

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

Exhibitionists have no friends...

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.

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What I wanted most of all was ...

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in C...

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

All this cut-price transcenden...

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Quentin Crisp 195 quotes

Fear and hatred do not seem to...

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

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My outlook was so limited that...

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....