Ifs Quote by Quentin S. Crisp

“When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp — Download Open image

“When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.”

Quentin S. Crisp

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Ifs Might Really true Relaxation Remember Seventies Thinking Trying

More by Quentin S. Crisp

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

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

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

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

Image

I've never been baptised.

Quentin S. Crisp

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 115 Quentin S. Crisp quotes

More Ifs quotes

Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.…

Monica Potter

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.…

Ram Dass

Image

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

Simon Schama

Image

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to…

Laurie Helgoe

Image

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

L. Neil Smith

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

Eleanor Clark

Image

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

Ferran Adria

Image

If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

Jay Leno

Image

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

Bruce Springsteen

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Image

If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

Jill Stein