Quentin Crisp | women
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Quentin Crisp | relationship
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.
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Quentin Crisp | money
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.
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Quentin Crisp | intelligence
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Quentin Crisp | happiness
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
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Quentin Crisp | happiness
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.
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Quentin Crisp | good
It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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Quentin Crisp | god
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?
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