| Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| 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. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| 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. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| Men get laid, but women get screwed. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| 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. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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| If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. |
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- Quentin Crisp |
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