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Quentin Crisp Quote: “Among other objections to the image of me was that I hated animals. I still do. I have enough dumb friends without them.”

151. “Among other objections to the image of me was that I hated animals. I still do. I have enough dumb friends without them.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.”

152. “Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.”

153. “Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.”

154. “All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.”

155. “Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “I played all games seriously, even nastily. They provided me an enclosed world whose triumphs compensated me somewhat for a life of defeat elsewhere.”

156. “I played all games seriously, even nastily. They provided me an enclosed world whose triumphs compensated me somewhat for a life of defeat elsewhere.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “I did not know that a reputation for wit is earned not by making jokes, but by laughing at the pleasantries of others.”

157. “I did not know that a reputation for wit is earned not by making jokes, but by laughing at the pleasantries of others.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “It was not so much that I longed for death as that I didn’t long for life.”

158. “It was not so much that I longed for death as that I didn’t long for life.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “It was my policy never to spend more than half my wages so as not to have to work for more than half my days on earth.”

159. “It was my policy never to spend more than half my wages so as not to have to work for more than half my days on earth.”

— Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp Quote: “The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides.”

160. “The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.”

161. “To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “I have this lust for small talk. Nobody escapes my love.”

162. “I have this lust for small talk. Nobody escapes my love.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “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.”

163. “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.”

— Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp Quote: “It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.”

164. “It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “A clown is a horrible thing to happen to anyone.”

165. “A clown is a horrible thing to happen to anyone.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “I do what I like anyhow any time. My life is one long holiday.”

166. “I do what I like anyhow any time. My life is one long holiday.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.”

167. “Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “A little old lady once said to me, ‘I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.”

168. “A little old lady once said to me, ‘I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “The monasteries of Bohemia demand more of their brotherhood than some are prepared to give. The daily routine of back-breaking idleness proves too much for certain novices. The self-inflicted orgies that are the inevitable punishment for the slightest deviation into the bourgeois way of life are more than their frail flesh can stand. Many discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots, and greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope.”

169. “The monasteries of Bohemia demand more of their brotherhood than some are prepared to give. The daily routine of back-breaking idleness proves too much for certain novices. The self-inflicted orgies that are the inevitable punishment for the slightest deviation into the bourgeois way of life are more than their frail flesh can stand. Many discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots, and greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope.”

— Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp Quote: “There are a lot of people in the world who are not loved and we must make an inconspicuous dash to them to save them, to help them. To live a life and not be loved is a terrible thing. And we can spare them that if we are attentive.”

170. “There are a lot of people in the world who are not loved and we must make an inconspicuous dash to them to save them, to help them. To live a life and not be loved is a terrible thing. And we can spare them that if we are attentive.”

— Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp Quote: “Drawing is a science, painting is just something for the long winter evenings.”

171. “Drawing is a science, painting is just something for the long winter evenings.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, ‘We are all put into the world for... ’ because we weren’t put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that’s fine.”

172. “You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, ‘We are all put into the world for... ’ because we weren’t put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that’s fine.”

— Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp Quote: “It is no longer possible to be exotic.”

173. “It is no longer possible to be exotic.”

— Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp Quote: “Even in childhood I was mad about men in uniform.”

174. “Even in childhood I was mad about men in uniform.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “Brave men hide their deeds as decent folk their alms. They disguise them or make excuses for them.”

175. “Brave men hide their deeds as decent folk their alms. They disguise them or make excuses for them.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “The increased scale of your operations will lend you respectability.”

176. “The increased scale of your operations will lend you respectability.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “My fingers will not type the words ‘her money became a burden to her’ but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant – better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.”

178. “My fingers will not type the words ‘her money became a burden to her’ but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant – better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.”

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Quentin Crisp Quote: “What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.”

179. “What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.”

— Quentin Crisp

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