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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
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face
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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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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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You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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