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I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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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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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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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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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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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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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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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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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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