Quentin Crisp Quotes

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• I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gay, Thinking, Done

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• Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

  Quentin Crisp

  Regret, Doubt, Want

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• 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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  Funny, Kids, Years

  Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

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  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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• Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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  Inspirational, Levels, Dignity

  Tim Fountain, Quentin Crisp (2001). “Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains it All”, MIT Press

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Want, Lgbt

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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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• If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

  Quentin Crisp

  Writing, Realist, Ifs

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

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• 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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  Expanding Universe, Addresses, Sides

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• Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

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  Believe, Fate, Choices

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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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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Truth, Communication, Diplomatic Relations

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• No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

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  Happiness, Effort, Enormous

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• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

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  Fashion, Style, Able

  Speech, October 29, 1980.

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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Women, Sassy

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• To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

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  Blessing, Past, Opportunity

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• Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

  Quentin Crisp

  Advice, Want, Get Involved

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Fathers Day, Mother, Dad

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• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

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  Funny, Life, Way

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.18.

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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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• 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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