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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Denis Charles Pratt
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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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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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 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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I'm too old to make drawings.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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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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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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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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To lose is not always failure.
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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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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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