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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should 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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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.
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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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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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I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.
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What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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