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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Quentin Crisp

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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Denis Charles Pratt
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'
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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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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person someone who would 'take me away from all this.'
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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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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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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