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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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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Maybe when I turned the page it was a new chapter just in life, so why not do the same in music? I think part of life is going out there trying to find something new, experiencing something new yourself.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.
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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.
