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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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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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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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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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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In England, nobody's your friend.
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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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God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.
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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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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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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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The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
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In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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