English - Writer | December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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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.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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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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