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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the 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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Denis Charles Pratt
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a real man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who goes with other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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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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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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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.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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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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