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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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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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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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I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
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When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person someone who would 'take me away from all this.'
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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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 law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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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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What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
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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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Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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I've never not been famous.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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