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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Denis Charles Pratt
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I've never not been famous.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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