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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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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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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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