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Quentin Crisp Quotes

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: December 25, 1908 - November 21, 1999

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Sleep Succeed More Need Seem Must

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind Search Will Never Movement

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Love Sea Power Think Why Things

If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.

Tommy Lee Jones

People Thinking Hell Hats You Look

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

Me Building Street Skateboarding Big

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Tiger Finish Six Seven Months Took

If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd think you were completely mad.

Good Day Think Self Talking You

I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.

Feel Person I Feel Fulfilled

Barack Obama being President of the United States doesn't mean racism has disappeared. It's all a process, and we have to be aware that the work never ends.

Work Racism Process Never Mean

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Life Job Old Friends Friends Look

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Through Nightclubs Worked

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.

Me Universe Spark Honored Off Just

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

William Hazlitt

Friends Wish Ready Everything Us

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