The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural… — 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 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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