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"Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it."
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Quentin CrispYoull never be wanted," [a draft board official] said, and thrust at m — Quentin Crisp
"Youll never be wanted," [a draft board official] said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I dont much care for the expression suffering from. Shouldnt it be glorying in?"
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Quentin Crisp was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of her life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, she was an artist's model, hence the title of Crisp's most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant. She afterwards became a gay icon due to her flamboyant personality, fashion sense, and wit. Her iconic status was occasionally controversial due
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"If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being."
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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 problem by defying their elders and copying each other."
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"When stripped, I looked less like "Il David" than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis."
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"Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbours."
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"At the age of ninety, it has finally been explained to me that I am not really homosexual, Im transgender. I now accept that. I no longer see myself as homosexual, though it is a word I have used to describe myself and which others have understandably used to describe me. I dont actually see myself as a man though, of course, I know Im not physically a woman. The only thing in my life I have wanted and didnt get was to be a woman. [...] I dont dress like a woman ... I think my body is too like a mans body to have lived as a woman with any kind of success. I refer to myself as homosexual without thinking because of how I have lived my life."
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