Tag: Quentin Crisp

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Quentin Crisp Women

Quentin Crisp | women

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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Quentin Crisp relationship

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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parenting Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp | parenting

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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money Quentin Crisp

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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intelligence Quentin Crisp

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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health Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp | health

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.

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happiness Quentin Crisp

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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happiness Quentin Crisp

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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good Quentin Crisp

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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God Quentin Crisp

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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