There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin CrispOur clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
Quentin CrispTags: fashion
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 CrispThe war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
Quentin CrispTags: battle-of-the-sexes
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin CrispTags: quentin-crisp
Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.
Quentin CrispTags: humor creativity artist irony-of-life
The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
Quentin CrispTags: inspirational humour
Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing.
Quentin CrispTags: quentin-crisp
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable
Quentin CrispSo black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark.
Quentin CrispTags: progress sadness darkness light despondency
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