“I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.”

— Quentin Crisp

Foreword by Quentin Crisp to Conversations with my Elders by Boze Hadleigh (1986)

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writer, Actor 1908–1999

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