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Quentin Crisp Quotes: Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
         

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.


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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.



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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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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.



In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.



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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.



My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.



The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.



Vice is its own reward.

Vice is its own reward.



Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.



No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.





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