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[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.

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

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

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