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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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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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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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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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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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