Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Way

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• Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

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  Years, Four, Four Years

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

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  Expanding Universe, Sides, Outcast

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

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  Girl, Drama, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Happiness is the only thing I understand.

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  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

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  Manhattan, Actors, Surface

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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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  Home, Two, Culture

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• As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

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  Sex, Risk, Doe

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• You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

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  Doors, Persons, Ifs

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• A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

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  Egomaniacs, Share, Starvation

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• I never say 'No' to anything.

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  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

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  Sleep, Opposites, Needs

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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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  Talking, Sitting, Pay

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 15, 1968.

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• I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

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  Secret, Young, Courses

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.

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  Years, Age, Rooms

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 12, 1968.

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

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  Would Be, England, Constitution

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• I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

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  Believe, Alive, Conventions

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• In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

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  New York, People, Bars

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• 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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  Love, Life, Foundation

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• You don't have to do anything.

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• The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

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  Hospitality, Courses

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

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  People, Involvement, Minimum

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• Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

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  Opportunity, Rude, Motive

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• 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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  Grief, Essence, Guilt

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• When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

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  Giving, Advice, Courses

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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