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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
Writer
Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
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All America is much the same.
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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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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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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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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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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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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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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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