Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp, born Denis Charles Pratt, was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to remain in the closet.
“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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“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
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“The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”
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“Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?”
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“It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.”
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“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”
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“I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.”
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“However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.”
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“Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.”
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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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