Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".

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

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

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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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