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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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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?'
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Vice is its own reward.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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