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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
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Sutton
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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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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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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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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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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I've always lived in the same way.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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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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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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I've never not been famous.
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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
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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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What is privacy if not for invading?
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