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I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after telling us to beware of aliens because they'll probably just do to us as the conquistadors did to the native peoples of the Americas. So . . . exactly why do we want to go on and on, to go forth and multiply in a hostile final frontier? Why?

Quentin S. Crisp's Popular Quotes

I've never been baptised.

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I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

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I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle o…

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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, I suppose it is just this weariness,…

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I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products …

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It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books m…

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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

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I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

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I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

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