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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
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Graphic Designer
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
Quentin Crisp
Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
Quentin Crisp
In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
Quentin Crisp
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
Quentin Crisp
The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
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God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen.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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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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In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Quentin Crisp
Vice is its own reward.
Quentin Crisp
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
Quentin Crisp
Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
Quentin Crisp
That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
Quentin Crisp
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.
Quentin Crisp
