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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.

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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