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Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
Model
Socialite
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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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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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.
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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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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
Quentin Crisp
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
Quentin Crisp
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
Quentin Crisp
I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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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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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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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.
Quentin Crisp
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
Quentin Crisp
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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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
Quentin Crisp
It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
Quentin Crisp
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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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?
Quentin Crisp
