Quote by Quentin Crisp
I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a

I recommend limiting ones involvement in other peoples lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises. – Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – 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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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you dont believe? – Quentin Crisp

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. Romans 14:7 – Bible

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Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. – Bhagavad Gita

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. – Jean Rostand

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