I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.
I've never been baptised. - Quentin S. Crisp
I've never been baptised.
- Quentin S. Crisp
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 … - Quentin S. Crisp
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 …
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,… - Quentin S. Crisp
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,…
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab. - Quentin S. Crisp
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.
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… - Quentin S. Crisp
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…
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… - Quentin S. Crisp
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…
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry. - Quentin S. Crisp
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.
I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos. - Quentin S. Crisp
I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
I'm more a dog person than a cat person. - Quentin S. Crisp
I'm more a dog person than a cat person.
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