“There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”
Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 15
Quentin Crisp , nombre de nacimiento Denis Charles Pratt, fue un escritor, modelo artístico, actor y cuenta-historias inglés conocido por su memorable y perspicaz ingenio. Fue un icono gay en los 70 tras la publicación de sus memorias, "El funcionario desnudo" que atrajo la atención del público por su exhibicionismo desafiante y su persistente rechazo a ocultar su homosexualidad Wikipedia
“There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”
Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 15
“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.”
The Naked Civil Servant (1968)
Attributed
Fuente: Quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien
“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”
Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 1
Contexto: 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.
“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 18
“I became one of the stately homos of England.”
Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 23
Manners from Heaven (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1984), ch. 2, p. 21
Manners from Heaven (1984)
How to Have a Life-Style