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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
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Graphic Designer
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Sutton
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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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, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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Vice is its own reward.
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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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