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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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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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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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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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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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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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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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