Quentin S. Crisp Quotes About Innocence

• I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Innocence, Longing, Lost

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• 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.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Loss, Oil, Scandal

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• Quizá también pueda añadir algo sobre el entorno rural de ¡Recuerda que eres una bola única! El campo es un lugar -en términos mitológicos y quizá muy reales- donde se mezclan la inocencia y el pecado. La gente del pueblo lo considera idílico, perezoso, libre de delincuencia urbana y problemas sociales. Pero quienes crecen en el campo pueden contar historias que a menudo sorprenden a quienes crecen en las ciudades.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Vacuums, Facts, Innocence

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• You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  World, Might, Innocence

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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".

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Guerra, Pasado, Mundo

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• Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Writing

  Fuente: www.teemingbrain.com

• 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.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Summer, Holiday, Giving

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

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Earth, Innocence, Imagine

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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.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Dying, Rays

  Fuente: www.teemingbrain.com

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