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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
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.
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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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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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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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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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