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You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
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Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Socialite
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.
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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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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
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You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.
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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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