Quentin Crisp Quotes

As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

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• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

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• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

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• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

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• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

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• Everything is real on me.

  

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• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

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• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

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• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

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• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

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• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

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• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

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• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

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• I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

  

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• There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.

  

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• Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

  

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• I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.

  

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• I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

  

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• As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Wish