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Quentin Crisp , nombre de nacimiento Denis Charles Pratt, fue un escritor, modelo artístico, actor y cuenta-historias inglés conocido por su memorable y perspicaz ingenio. Fue un icono gay en los 70 tras la publicación de sus memorias, "El funcionario desnudo" que atrajo la atención del público por su exhibicionismo desafiante y su persistente rechazo a ocultar su homosexualidad Wikipedia  

✵ 25. diciembre 1908 – 21. noviembre 1999   •   Otros nombres كوینتین كریسب, كوينتين كريسب
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“Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.”

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Quentin Crisp libro The Naked Civil Servant

Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 7

“I never saw Portsmouth by day.”

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Quentin Crisp libro The Naked Civil Servant

Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 13

“The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.”

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Quentin Crisp libro The Naked Civil Servant

Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 13

“We think we write definitively of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing — still in doubt. Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.”

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Quentin Crisp libro The Naked Civil Servant

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The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

“Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.”

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Quentin Crisp libro The Naked Civil Servant

Fuente: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 1

“My fingers will not type the words "her money became a burden to her" but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.”

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Fuente: How to Become a Virgin (1981), Ch. 9