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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
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Sutton
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
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Europeans are quarrelsome.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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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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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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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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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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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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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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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
Quentin Crisp
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
Quentin Crisp
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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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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