I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. 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

Mots clés inspirational atheism humour prayer absurdism

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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Quentin Crisp

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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Quentin Crisp

Mots clés sex

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Quentin Crisp

Mots clés humor inspirational self-discovery

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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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If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.

Quentin Crisp

Mots clés originality creativity

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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.

Quentin Crisp

Mots clés happiness humour british

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The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.

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