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I've always lived in the same way.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Sutton
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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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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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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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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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
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Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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What is privacy if not for invading?
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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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