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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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Last
Funny
Installment
Form
Obituary
Serial
Serials
Autobiography
Missing

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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
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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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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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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
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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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I've never not been famous.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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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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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.
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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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