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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Quentin Crisp

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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
Happiness
Attain
Else
Required
Everything
Concentration
Even
Abandon
Define
Enormous
Needed
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