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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.


Quentin Tarantino

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QUENTIN CRISP The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli...
QUENTIN BRYCE The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa...
QUENTIN CRISP It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be ...
QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
QUENTIN CRISP The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ...
QUENTIN BRYCE For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
QUENTIN CRISP Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
QUENTIN CRISP The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISP Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw...
QUENTIN CRISP Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed see...
QUENTIN CRISP Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that i...
QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so...
QUENTIN CRISP One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
QUENTIN CRISP The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is...
QUENTIN CRISP There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any wor...
QUENTIN CRISP I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned
QUENTIN CRISP Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast...
QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISP Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
QUENTIN CRISP Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst...
QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now s...
QUENTIN CRISP Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
QUENTIN CRISP The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy
QUENTIN CRISP Turning a broken process into a “non-negotiable” standard does not a good procedure make.
QUENTIN BRAUN It takes more than talking points and consultative knowhow. What sets apart a legitimate and compete...
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