Quentin Crisp Zitate

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„Der niedrige Tauchgang hatte einen Standard gesetzt, an den sich nur Hooligans mittleren Alters erinnern konnten und auf den sie als Mrs. Lot in Sodom zurückblickten.“

„Eine Autobiografie ist ein Nachruf als Fortsetzungsgeschichte, deren letzte Folge fehlt.“

„Zu meiner Enttäuschung habe ich nun erkannt, dass alles verstehen nicht allen verzeihen bedeutet. Es bedeutet alle zu verachten.“

“I never saw Portsmouth by day.”

“The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.”

“We think we write definitively of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing — still in doubt. Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.”

“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.”

“My fingers will not type the words "her money became a burden to her" but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.”