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To love another person 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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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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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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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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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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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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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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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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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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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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