Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 December 1908
african glass tears
Tears were to me what glass beads are to African traders.
funny grave life occurred
Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave
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It is not a biopic; it is not a trawl through the facts of somebody's life. It is more an evening with a Shakespearean clown who speaks the truth and was whipped for his pains. Writing the play made me love and loathe my country more: love it that it could create, and has always created, one-offs like Quentin; loathe it for its rejection of him.
opportunity blessing past
To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
curiosity individuality neighbor
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
sex women sassy
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
flirty house world
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
success moving character
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.
soul survival forgiving
Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
bartender ifs
If you truly love me, kill the bartender.
sex war sleep
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
expanding-universe addresses sides
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
teenage parent rebel
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.
fathers-day mother dad
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.