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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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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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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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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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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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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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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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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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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When I was young, I and the whole world thought that all homosexuals were effeminate. And of course they're not. You can just see which people are effeminate that's the only difference. So, I became a prototype of the effeminate man, because I was conspicuously effeminate. But camp is not something I do, it's something I am.
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The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.
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All America is much the same.
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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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