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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.
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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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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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I'm too old to make drawings.
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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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