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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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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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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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In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
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Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
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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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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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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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