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 Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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Quentin Crisp In Black And White | Broadway Gallery
Photographs by Martin Fishman (1937?2010) A Celebration of Two Imaginative Lives! 16-30 June, opening reception Thursday June 17th 6-8pm ?I.
Days on the Claise: Quentin Crisp was Wrong
There are a number of variations on this quote, all attributed to Quentin Crisp: sometimes it's "some" years, sometimes it's two years, and sometimes it isn't dirt, but dust. The thing is, he wasn't thinking long term. ...
Set the Tone Monday: Quentin Crisp
... are prepared to leave that place that has so far been our hermit's cave, our athlete's gymnasium, our actor's sound booth. Having progressed from making to doing to being, we are ready to move out into the world". -- Quentin Crisp.
Quentin S Crisp - Death by Toothpaste
Quentin S Crisp # 15. July 2010, 13:42. Originally posted by I_ArtMan: an albino moth, quite pleased with itself befriended me at camp deerhorn in wisconsin. i was about ten. he stayed on my shoulder through the day and did his thing, ...
The style of Quentin Crisp - an enduring philosophy
Articles and musings about spirituality, wellness and a holistic outlook on living in the United Kingdom in the 21st century.
