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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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 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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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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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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Vice is its own reward.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
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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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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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