It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I believe that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination'… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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