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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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