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“In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.”

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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

“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.”

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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.”

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“The weird thing is, I'm not entirely sure that I am meant to think that such a gift is who I am according to the philosophy underlying Vedanta. But I have long been stubborn like that, for some reason. It's a gift, as I say.”

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“This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.”

Writing Young Strong Who I Am

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“The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.”

Writing Quality Who I Am

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“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.”

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“I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.”

World Ideas Conscious Elsewhere

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“I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.”

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“I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.”

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“I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.”

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