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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

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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Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Socialite
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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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.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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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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 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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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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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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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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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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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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