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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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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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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
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To lose is not always failure.
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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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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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You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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