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The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.
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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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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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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What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
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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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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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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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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to Hamlet on the grounds that I knew who won.
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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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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
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In England, nobody's your friend.
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