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Quentin Crisp

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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.


— Quentin Crisp


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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.


— Quentin Crisp


#funny thing #grave #happened #life #me

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.


— Quentin Crisp


#trouble

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.


— Quentin Crisp


#everybody #forgive #know

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.


— Quentin Crisp


#form #installment #last #missing #obituary

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.


— Quentin Crisp


#diplomatic #truths #unpleasant #unpleasant truths #wearing

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.


— Quentin Crisp


#environment #himself #his #introvert #never

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.


— Quentin Crisp


#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?


— Quentin Crisp


#filing #house #lost #system #vast

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.


— Quentin Crisp


#constant #effect #enlightenment #facts #freedom






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Filmography
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (introduction). As he had done in London Crisp allowed his telephone number to be listed in the telephone directory and saw it as his duty to converse with anyone who called him.

From a conventional suburban background Crisp grew up with effeminate tendencies which he flaunted by parading the streets in make-up and painted nails and working as a rent-boy. His one-man stage show was a long-running hit both in England and America and he also appeared in films and on TV.

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