Quentin S. Crisp Quotes - Page 5

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• I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.

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  Hangover, Feels, Ran

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• People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.

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  Thinking, People, Seventies

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• Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

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  Stranger, Social, Playgrounds

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• Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.

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  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.

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  Dark, Thinking, Car

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• The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Peculiar, World

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