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Letter "Q" » Quentin Crisp Quotes
«Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: ''If you truly love me, kill the bartender.''»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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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.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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«Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.»
«Tears were to me what glass beads are to African traders.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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«For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change»
«Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses»
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Intelligence
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dab, euphemism, euphemisms, powerless
«You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.»
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across the country, crawl, fall out, mother country, under fire, womb
«Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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an account, hearer, misfortunes, permitted, pleasantly, shortens
«Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.»
«I told Mr. Hurt it was difficult for actors to play victims, but he has specialized in victims. When he stopped playing me, he played Caligula, which was only me in a sheet. Then he played The Elephant Man, which was only me with a paper bag over my head.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
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Caligula, Elephant Man, paper bag, sheet, sheet of paper, specialize, specialized, specializing, The Elephant, The Elephant Man
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