I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in. Quentin Crisp More Quotes by Quentin Crisp More Quotes From Quentin Crisp Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit. Quentin Crisp forgiving survival soul My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated. Quentin Crisp guilt grief essence The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death. Quentin Crisp philosophical love profound Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry. Quentin Crisp confused hurt self Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. Quentin Crisp accounts journey laughing What is privacy if not for invading? Quentin Crisp invading privacy ifs I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets. Quentin Crisp regret That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied. Quentin Crisp cosmetics lucky faces I never say 'No' to anything. Quentin Crisp As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.) Quentin Crisp risk doe sex If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable. Quentin Crisp ifs mean hands Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. Quentin Crisp getting-what-you-want humor way Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. Quentin Crisp opposites sleep needs The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves. Quentin Crisp eye hair tree If you truly love me, kill the bartender. Quentin Crisp bartender ifs Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality. Quentin Crisp homosexuality becoming faces I don't know how people act. I've never understood that. Quentin Crisp understood know-how people Europeans are quarrelsome. Quentin Crisp I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man. Quentin Crisp stereotype men I don't think I have a tragic demeanor. Quentin Crisp demeanor tragic thinking
