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“This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.”

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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

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“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.”

“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.”

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“On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.”

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“We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.”

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“I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)”

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“The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.”

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“Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".”

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“I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually. And there will never be another Annette Funicello. I suppose it's the slight starchiness of the innocence that makes it unrepeatable.”

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“If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.”

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“I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.”

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