Quentin Crisp's Quote - Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and

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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. – Quentin Crisp

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Its 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. – Quentin Crisp

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. – Quentin Crisp

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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you cant think what to do with the long winter evenings. – Quentin Crisp

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