“More or less the first thing that comes into my head is that some people are always looking for what they want to do in life and never finding it. I'm not one of those people. It has been very obvious to me from an early age who I am, and this has been tied up with creativity, and, specifically, with writing.” PeopleWantWritingFirstsHas BeensAgeCreativityFindingsObviousWho I AmTiedTied Up Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.” PeopleIfsShouldWritingIdeasCoursesGivenAbilityCreativeDown AndCome UpWork OutSat Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.” PeopleIfsThinkingMightWonderFailingEssentialsIdealsInstanceNot SureWho We AreIdiosyncrasiesDiscrepanciesFoibles Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.” PeopleIfsKindMadeStillsAbleRecordsTelevisionPhonesFishesNewspapersTelephonesSeventiesChipsDiariesMobileVisitingAppointmentsNormalityMobile PhonesFlavourFish And Chips Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.” PeopleThinkingSeventies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.” PeopleThinkingNaturalGateways Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.” PeopleIfsWayI CanMake SenseConsistentPantheismRedundantDesignation Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensSpiritualParticularTraditionApprehension Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.” PeopleMayWishCreativityBuddhismFineConflict Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.” PeopleMeanDifferentCreativityBuddhismConflictComplexesAbstractDifferent ThingsEntityDifferent PeoplesDifferent Relationships Author:Quentin S. Crisp
