The young always have the s... by Quentin Crisp, an English Writer

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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

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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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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 know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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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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Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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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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