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What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
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Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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