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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.
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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Vice is its own reward.
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Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
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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.
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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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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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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I've always lived in the same way.
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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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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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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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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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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