The British do not expect h... by Quentin Crisp, an English Writer

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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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Name: Quentin Crisp

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Dec 25, 1908

Date of Death: Nov 21, 1999

Profession: Writer

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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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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

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