Quentin Crisp Quotes
I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I took a break from horror; I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back.
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I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
