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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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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.
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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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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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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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I don't think I have a tragic demeanor.
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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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What is privacy if not for invading?
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The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.
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I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.
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Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.
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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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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me
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To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
Quentin Crisp
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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