Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."