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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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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The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
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A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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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 was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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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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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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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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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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Vice is its own reward.
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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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