Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
years four-years dirt
Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
sex fate sacrifice
In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.
actors manhattan stage
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
boys class calling
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.
baby flower
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
done world ignoble
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
function clear
My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.
personality style consciousness
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
blessing atheism looks
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
no-friends exhibitionist
Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
religious war ideas
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
drug exhibitionism novices
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
gay disco-music century
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
england hot distinction
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.