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Quentin Crisp
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"Men get laid, but women get screwed."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Women
"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should 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
Topic(s):
Relationship
"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Parenting
"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Intelligence
"Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Health
"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Happiness
"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Happiness
"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."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Good
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?"
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
God
"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."
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Quentin Crisp
Topic(s):
Funny
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