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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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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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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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I've never not been famous.
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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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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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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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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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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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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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