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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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.
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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
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The homosexuals are on the march in this country. Please remember, homosexuals do not reproduce! They recruit! And, many of them are after my children and your children.
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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.
