Quentin Crisp





Quentin Crisp

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born
December 25, 1908 in Sutton, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom

died
November 21, 1999

gender
male

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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.


Average rating: 4.00 · 3357 ratings · 356 reviews · 28 distinct works
The Naked Civil Servant
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4.1 of 5 stars 410 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions
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Resident Alien: The New Yor...
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How To Become A Virgin
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Manners from Heaven: A Divi...
4.1 of 5 stars 410 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions
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The Wit and Wisdom of Quent...
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4.19 of 5 stars 419 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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How to Have a Lifestyle
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How to Go to the Movies
3.87 of 5 stars 387 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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Chog
3.43 of 5 stars 343 avg rating — 14 ratings3 editions
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Quentin Crisp's Book of Quo...
3.71 of 5 stars 371 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1989
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The Naked Civil Servant; Ho...
4.17 of 5 stars 417 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000
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More books by Quentin Crisp…
“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?”
Quentin Crisp, The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

“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.”
Quentin Crisp

“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
Quentin Crisp

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