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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.
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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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person someone who would 'take me away from all this.'
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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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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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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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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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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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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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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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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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What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
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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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