“I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.” AgeBornColourSeventiesHaircutsBad Haircuts Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.” ThinkingAbleSeventies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.” CoursesSeventiesNormality 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
“When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.” IfsThinkingTryingMightRememberSeventiesRelaxationReally True Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.” HandsFascinatedSixtySeventies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.” ThinkingLittlesLastsSunDyingColdRedCaughtInnocenceRaysSeventies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.” IfsKnowsLossCrisisOilScalesInnocenceNot SureSeventiesScandalHiroshimaWatergateLoss Of Innocence 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
“People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.” PeopleThinkingSeventies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenWantedStageDefinitionsStrangerSeventiesSinister Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.” SocialEdgesStrangerSeventiesPlaygroundsLurking Author:Quentin S. Crisp
