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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
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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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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I've never not been famous.
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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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I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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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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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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