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Quotes by Quentin Crisp
- 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.
- 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.
- The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
- Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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