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I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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I've always lived in the same way.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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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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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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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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In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
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Los Angeles is just New York lying down.
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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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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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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 lose is not always failure.
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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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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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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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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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