Quentin Crisp Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

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  Done, World, Ignoble

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• As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

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  Marriage, Husband, People

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• Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

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  Tragedy, Desire

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

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  Talent, Ifs

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

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• 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.

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  Rome, Style, May

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• Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

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  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

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  Freedom, Blessing, Simple

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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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• 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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• 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

  Source: www.avclub.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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• I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

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  People, Needs, Needed

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

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  Scots

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• 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.

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  Boys, Class, Faces

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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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• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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