Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.
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And, yes, I love the process of building.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.
