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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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Socialite
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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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 Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
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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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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
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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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In England, nobody's your friend.
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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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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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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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