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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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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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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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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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I'm too old to make drawings.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.
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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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