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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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You will survive if you believe in yourself.
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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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It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
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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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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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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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All America is much the same.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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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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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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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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In England, nobody's your friend.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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