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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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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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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Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
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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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In England, nobody's your friend.
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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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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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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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What is privacy if not for invading?
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