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Quentin Crisp - From the Advice category:
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Character category:
Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Construction category:
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Ego category:
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. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Environment category:
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Failure category:
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Fashion category:
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Generosity category:
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)
Quentin Crisp - From the Health category:
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Intellect category:
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Journey category:
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Life category:
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Love category:
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Money category:
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'SoHo' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Opposites category:
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Order category:
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Religion category:
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Repetition category:
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)
Quentin Crisp - From the Truth category:
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. (Quentin Crisp)
Quentin Crisp - From the Universe category:
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)
Quentin Crisp - From the Writing category:
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)
Quentin Crisp - From the Writing category:
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. (Quentin Crisp)
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