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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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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
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Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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