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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.
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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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I've always lived in the same way.
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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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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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.
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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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