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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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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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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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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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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Europeans are quarrelsome.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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I've always lived in the same way.
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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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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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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