"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?"

-- Quentin Crisp

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“I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.”
“If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.”
“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.”
“We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.”
“To live outside the law, you must be honest.”
“I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.”
“Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. Â It is an investment.”

Source : Twitter post from May 17, 2011
“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2007). “A Fairy Tale of New York”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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