Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Rachel Johnson
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish
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At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.
Jan Chipchase
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Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.
Dakota Blue Richards
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In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.
Meghan Daum
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If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?
Esther Earl
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I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.
Enda Kenny
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In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.
Quentin S. Crisp
