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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
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
Model
Socialite
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
Manners
Cool
Climate
Inspirational
Love

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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 absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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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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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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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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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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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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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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Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
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