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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
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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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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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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 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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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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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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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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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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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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