Quentin Crisp

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

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change

Manners are love in a cool climate.

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cool

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

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failure

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.

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freedom

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

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funny

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

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god

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

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good

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.

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happiness

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.

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happiness

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

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health

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