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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.

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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
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Woman
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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I've always lived in the same way.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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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!
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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