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Квентин Крисп — английский писатель и актёр.

Родился в пригороде Лондона, тридцать лет работал натурщиком для классов живописи. Интервью о его необычном стиле жизни привлекли внимание публики. Его концерты в разговорном жанре долгое время были популярны в Британии и в США. Он снимался в фильмах и телевизионных шоу. Крисп также был известен своей критикой движения за права гомосексуалов и критикой принцессы Дианы.

✵ 25. Декабрь 1908 – 21. Ноябрь 1999  •  Другие имена كوینتین كریسب, كوينتين كريسب
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„Главная цель нашего существования — это примирить наше блестящее мнение о себе самих с теми ужасными вещами, которые думают о нас другие.“

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„Пессимист — это тот, кто не станет вылезать из ванны, услышав звонок телефона.“

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„Больший позор потерять приобретенное, чем совсем не быть приобретшим.“

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„Мода — это то, что ты заимствуешь, когда не знаешь, кто ты.“

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„Есть три причины, по которым становятся писателем. Первая: вам нужны деньги; вторая: вы хотите сказать миру что то важное; третья: вы не знаете, чем занять себя долгими зимними вечерами.“

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„Женщина не впадает в крайности; она там живет.“

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„Убирать квартиру совершенно излишне. После первых четырёх лет она уже не станет грязнее.“

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„Предположение, будто Господь отвлекается от дел мироздания, чтобы подарить мне велосипед с тремя скоростями, настолько неправдоподобно, что я не принимаю его всерьёз.“

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Квентин Крисп: Цитаты на английском языке

“There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 15

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”

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“The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face”

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“Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.”

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“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

“I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 24

“You'll never be wanted," [a draft board official] said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 16

“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 don't believe?”

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Источник: Quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

“The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 19

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”

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Источник: The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”

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“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 1
Контексте: 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.

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

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“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 18

“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”

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“There are girls who do not like real life… Some of these girls are innocent enough to think that these unreal friendships [with homosexuals] will lead to true love — a kind of sexual intercourse that will happen to them without their having to take too horribly much notice. Even those who are sufficiently sophisticated to know that this will not be so persist in these relationships. They provide an opportunity to lavish emotion on a pseudo-man without paying the price that in heterosexual circumstances would be inevitable.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 19

“All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 14

“I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 21

“He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 27

“I became one of the stately homos of England.”

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Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 23

“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.”

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Quentin Crisp книга The Naked Civil Servant

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The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

“As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can’t leave anything alone."”

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Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 13

“It would be impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation, though, was a luxury I could never afford. On the physical level I was too feeble. On any other I was not rich enough. I never dared to be rude to anyone. I never knew that I might not need him later. Long after fantasies of sexual excess had ceased to torment me, my imagination was inflamed by lurid day-dreams of having my revenge on the world.”

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Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 29

“The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing."”

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Источник: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 24

“If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.”

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Manners from Heaven (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1984), ch. 2, p. 21
Manners from Heaven (1984)

“You talk for talking’s sake,' she hissed. I asked if that was bad. 'I mean it,' the girl replied. 'You talk for talking’s sake.' I had heard her the first time and had understood the words but not the contempt with which they were charged. 'Would you be equally annoyed,' I asked, 'if I danced for dancing’s sake? […] I should have said, 'Would you hate me if I lived for living’s sake?' This would have been the total question — the one to which a full reply could have saved the world.”

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