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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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
Model
Socialite
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Television Actor
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Supersede
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Peel
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Flavour
Stuff
Flavor
Never
Cook
Love
Cooks
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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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Europeans are quarrelsome.
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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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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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I've never not been famous.
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