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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

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
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Television Actor
Writer
Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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