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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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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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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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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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 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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
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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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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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