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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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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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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Europeans are quarrelsome.
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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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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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I've never not been famous.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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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Vice is its own reward.
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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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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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