“I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.” FeelsSeaSpecialGrewGrew UpDespiteLandscapeAncestryAffinityDevon Author: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 of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.” IfsFeelsHumansFactsTermBornMiddleInnocenceDemonVacuumsNormality Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.” FeelsDecadesRanSixtySeventiesHangoverLurking Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I suppose what I can say is that I do feel I have a natural spiritual sensibility.” FeelsI CanSpiritualNaturalSensibility Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.” IfsFeelsLittlesOrderCreativeBuddhismCallingConflictFundamentalsImpulse Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.” FeelsAmericaJapanMusePioneersNostalgic Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable to feel most at home in autumn, besides which, she almost feels most at home in all of them.” FeelsHomeWould BeAnd LoveSeasonsGladAutumnMuse Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where you are because there's nowhere to go anyway. I feel conflicted on this one.” FeelsTendenciesStayingMysticismWhere You AreEasternSlogansNowhere To GoBurroughs Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.” IfsFeelsDoeTwoHandsSeemsPrinciplesProgressFeetBuddhismIdealsWesternContradictionVillageCavesOpposing Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.” FeelsI CanIdeasHardRealityWould BeInterestingBonesWearyMarrowChilledInteresting Ideas Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.” FeelsShouldWritingKindIdeasSeemsMy OwnGenesReproductionMemes Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk.” WantFeelsWalksRain Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don't know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.” KnowsFeelsStillsMomentsHomeSeemsHouseLostAirFrontsFlowerBedRainGardenCookingCaughtSmellThese DaysSchedulesBack HomeDriveway Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.” FeelsWholeMomentsTogetherMy OwnAbilityColdMeaninglessMy Own LifeLyricalStitches Author:Quentin S. Crisp
