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Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
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
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
Angeles
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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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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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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.
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I'm too old to make drawings.
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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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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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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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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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You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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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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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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