Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Success, Moving, Character

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

  Quentin Crisp

  Talent, Ifs

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

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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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• The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

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  Real, Men, Winning

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Differences, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Had Enough, Mass

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

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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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• You will survive if you believe in yourself.

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  Believe, Ifs, Believe In Yourself

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• I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

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  Queens, Princess, Heart

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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 absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

  Quentin Crisp

  Blessing, Atheism, Looks

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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Winter, Thinking, Long

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Moving, Character, Self

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Success, Sarcastic

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

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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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• You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

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  Personality, Interviews, Ends

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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