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Quentin S Crisp Inspirational Quotes (193)

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To lose is not always failure.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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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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God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
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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.
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It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.
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I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.
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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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My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.
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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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The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
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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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The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.
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I never went to church as a child. I did not .
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Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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