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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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.
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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
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If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
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The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.
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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.
