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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
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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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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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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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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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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