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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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 ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a real man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who goes with other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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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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