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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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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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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
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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?
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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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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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To lose is not always failure.
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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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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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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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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 came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
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Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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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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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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