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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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
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The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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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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What is privacy if not for invading?
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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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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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Europeans are quarrelsome.
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In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a real man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who goes with other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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