I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest. — Quentin S. Crisp Interest Copy Share Image
I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively. — 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
There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and… — Quentin S. Crisp Fantasy Copy Share Image
[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
It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space." — 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 Affinity Copy Share Image
We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie,… — Quentin S. Crisp Breaking down 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
Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of… — Quentin S. Crisp Buddhism Copy Share Image
Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity.… — Quentin S. Crisp Austerity 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
I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I… — 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… — Quentin S. Crisp Children Copy Share Image
“We may learn things from one who preaches, or we may find their pontificating a waste of time—often enough, a hypocritical waste… — Quentin S. Crisp Children Copy Share Image
If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do… — Quentin S. Crisp Existence Copy Share Image
I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not… — Quentin S. Crisp Aliens Copy Share Image
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something… — Quentin S. Crisp Innocence 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
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
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine. — Quentin S. Crisp Castration 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 First world war Copy Share Image
Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up… — Quentin S. Crisp Apprehension 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
I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old… — Quentin S. Crisp Bible 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
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Comfort 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 Another world Copy Share Image
In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Comfort Copy Share Image
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