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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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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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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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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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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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I'm too old to make drawings.
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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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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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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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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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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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