All Quentin Crisp Quotes
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Quentin Crisp
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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.
Quentin Crisp
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Quentin Crisp
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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.
Quentin Crisp
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp
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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
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp
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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.
Quentin Crisp
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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 in
Life
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