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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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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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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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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
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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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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
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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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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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