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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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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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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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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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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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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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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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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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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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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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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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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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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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When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.
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I've always lived in the same way.
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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