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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
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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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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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.
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Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
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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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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
Quentin Crisp
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
Quentin Crisp
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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