Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
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I have never given up on men easily.
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Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
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My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.
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[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.
