[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent… — 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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