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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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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Socialite
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Never
Bargain
Think
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
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