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Quentin Crisp quotes about world

English Writer December 25, 1908 – November 21, 1999

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Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing. Quentin Crisp
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who, before anything has reared its ugly head, have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies. The habit fitted snugly into my well-established world of make-believe. Quentin Crisp
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened..."
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Quentin Crisp
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp quote: "Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which..."
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? Quentin Crisp
The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did. Quentin Crisp

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