Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 2

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• 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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  Relationship, Giving, Demand

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• You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

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  Inspirational, Numbers, Names

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• Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

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  Advice, Want, Get Involved

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

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  Funny, Success, Sarcastic

  "Writer, colorful gay figure Quentin Crisp dead at 90". www.cnn.com. November 21, 1999.

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• It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

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  Agony, Done, Way

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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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  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

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  Individuality, Curiosity, Neighbor

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• When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

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  Mother, Gay

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• However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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  Truth, Communication, Diplomatic Relations

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• When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate; that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.

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  Men, Differences, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Love, Funny, Sex

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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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  Forgiving, Despise, Knows

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 9, 1968.

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• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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  Sex, Women, Sassy

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

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  Success, Moving, Character

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• Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

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  Real, Emotional, Self

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• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

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  People, Promise, Passionate

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• The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

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  Thinking, Insulting, Religion

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• Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

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  Moving, Character, Self

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• 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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  Forgiveness, Hilarious, Thinking

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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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  Art, People, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.

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  Love, Philosophical, Profound

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• I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

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  Noise, Information, Minimum

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

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  America, People, England

  1985 In The Guardian, 23 Oct.

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