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«An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.»
«I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.»
«I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.»
«If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world, I would say that the men wanted to be amused; the girls sought vindication»
«You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | About: Disaster | Keywords: disasters, trivialities, triviality
«It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.»
«In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.»
«It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.»
«Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head»
«To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.»
Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | Keywords: know-all

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