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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.

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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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Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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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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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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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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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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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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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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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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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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