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“Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.”

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Quentin S. Crisp

According to limited available information, Quentin S. Crisp, born in 1972, is a person whose identity and profession have not been publicly documented in detail. more

“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.”

Ifs Feels Doe Two Hands Seems Principles Progress Feet Buddhism Ideals Western Contradiction Village Caves Opposing

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.”

Feels I Can Ideas Hard Reality Would Be Interesting Bones Weary Marrow Chilled Interesting Ideas

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.”

Writing Strong Term Explicit

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.”

Feels Should Writing Kind Ideas Seems My Own Genes Reproduction Memes

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.”

People Use Amount Gun Versus Millennium

Author:Kanye West

“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”

Thinking Life Feels Should Years Heart Action Figures Gratitude Deeds This Life I Live My Life Best Night Of My Life

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.”

People Ifs Needs School Film Violence Gun Hip Hop Entertainment Hips Hops Film School

Author:Kanye West

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