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Quentin Crisp Inspirational Quotes (193)

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I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, My Zen cuts down mountains. My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains that is precisely how it felt to me.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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The Scots are very hospitable almost as hospitable as the Americans.
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This woman did not fly to extremes she lived there.
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I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.
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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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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.
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If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.
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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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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
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[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
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Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.
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There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.
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All America is much the same.
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