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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Denis Charles Pratt
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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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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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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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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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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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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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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