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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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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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Zebulon Pike
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
Pamela Anderson
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
Nassau William Senior
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
Karen Abbott
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We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.
Maurice Strong
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Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.
Tabitha Suzuma
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My dad's very temperamental. Even today, he can be difficult.
Carlos Zambrano
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Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
Saadi
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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
