Quentin Crisp - Time Quotes

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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other.

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The time comes for everyone to do deliberately what he used to do by mistake If you are effeminate by nature, you have to find some way of telling the world that you know you are, otherwise they keep telling you.

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'You talk for talking's sake,' she hissed. I asked if that was bad. 'I mean it,' the girl replied. 'You talk for talking's sake.' I had heard her the first time and had understood the words but not the contempt with which they were charged. 'Would you be equally annoyed,' I asked, 'if I danced for dancing's sake? […] I should have said, 'Would you hate me if I lived for living's sake?' This would have been the total question — the one to which a full reply could have saved the world.

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