English - Writer | December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999
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.
Quentin Crisp
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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