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I'm too old to make drawings.

Quentin Crisp

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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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Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
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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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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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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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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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