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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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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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 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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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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There is a randomness to this ballet of death. This is the order of things. This is the secret to understanding the universe. Everything happens in an instant. Normalcy. And then apocalypse.
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
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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.
