Quentin Crisp on Autobiography

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Quentin Crisp on Rebellion and Conformity

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.

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Quentin Crisp on Being an Outcast

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

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Eudora Welty on Expectations

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

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John Updike on the Writer

"Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works."

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Quentin Crisp on the British

 
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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Quentin Crisp on Success

 

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

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John O'Hara on America

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

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John Updike on Religion

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

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Helen Keller on Books

During the long night of my life, the books I have read and those which have been read to me have built themselves into a great shining lighthouse, revealing to me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit.

 To read more about the life of this remarkable woman, click on this link. http://www.afb.org/section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=129

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Joseph Conrad on Respectability

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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Albert Schweitzer of Optimism and Pessimism

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Lillian Hellman on Necessity

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Quentin Crisp on Freedom

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. 

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Orson Wells on Happy Endings

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

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Truman Capote on Good Conversation

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."  Truman Capote

Hemingway

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.”