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Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Graphic Designer
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Television Actor
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Sutton
London
Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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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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The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.
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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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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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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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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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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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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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To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
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I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
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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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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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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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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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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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When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.
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