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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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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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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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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face
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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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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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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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