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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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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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