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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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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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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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.
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The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a real man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who goes with other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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