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Letter "Q" » Quentin Crisp Quotes
«An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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autobiography, installment, installments, missing, obituaries, obituary, serial
«I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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involvement, limiting, minimum, pleasantly, recommend, scant, scanted
«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»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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Homosexuality
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amused, describe, gay man, gay men, sexes, vindication
«You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster»
«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.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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ballet, ballets, ballet dancer, dancer, farm, pig, pigs, pig farm
«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.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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address, expanding, inhabited, metropolis, on the side, outcast, suburb, suburbs, 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.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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enlightenment, repetition, statement, usher, ushering, ushering in, ushers, usher in
«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»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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| About:
Euphemisms,
Youth
| Keywords:
agents, airily, barely, bluntly, euphemism, euphemisms, nod, pass by, secret agent, secret agents, stinking, verbiage
«To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.»
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