5 Quotes by Quentin Crisp about men

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    Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

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    What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

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    The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

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    If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.

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    Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

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