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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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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Europeans are quarrelsome.
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, Would you like to make an appointment?
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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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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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
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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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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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