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

—Quentin Crisp

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About Quentin Crisp

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Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; (1908-12-25)25 December 1908 – (1999-11-21)21 November 1999) was an English raconteur whose personal expression broke social norms of the era. Crisp gained notoriety for her 1968 memoir The Naked Civil Servant, popularized by its 1975 screen adaptation. Her flamboyant personality, fashion, and wit made...

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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

—Quentin Crisp

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Manners are love in a cool climate.

—Quentin Crisp

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

—Quentin Crisp

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

—Quentin Crisp

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

—Quentin Crisp

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Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

—William James

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

—William James

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

—Patricia Neal

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