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Quentin Crisp, vlastním jménem Denis Charles Pratt, byl britský spisovatel a umělec.

✵ 25. prosinec 1908 – 21. listopad 1999  •  Další jména كوینتین كریسب, كوينتين كريسب
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Quentin Crisp citáty a výroky

„Životopis je nekrolog v seriálové formě, kterému chybí poslední část.“

Quentin Crisp kniha The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant
Originál: (en) An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.
Zdroj: [National Book Council (Australia), Australian book review Vydání 178–187, Twayne Publishers, 1996, anglicky]

Quentin Crisp: Citáty anglicky

“There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 15

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”

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“The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face”

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“Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.”

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“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.”

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Quentin Crisp kniha The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

“I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 24

“You'll never be wanted," [a draft board official] said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 16

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”

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Zdroj: Quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

“The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 19

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”

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“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”

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Quentin Crisp kniha The Naked Civil Servant

Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 1
Kontext: Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

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“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 18

“There are girls who do not like real life… Some of these girls are innocent enough to think that these unreal friendships [with homosexuals] will lead to true love — a kind of sexual intercourse that will happen to them without their having to take too horribly much notice. Even those who are sufficiently sophisticated to know that this will not be so persist in these relationships. They provide an opportunity to lavish emotion on a pseudo-man without paying the price that in heterosexual circumstances would be inevitable.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 19

“All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 14

“I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 21

“He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 27

“I became one of the stately homos of England.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 23

“Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.”

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Closing words
The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

“As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can’t leave anything alone."”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 13

“It would be impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation, though, was a luxury I could never afford. On the physical level I was too feeble. On any other I was not rich enough. I never dared to be rude to anyone. I never knew that I might not need him later. Long after fantasies of sexual excess had ceased to torment me, my imagination was inflamed by lurid day-dreams of having my revenge on the world.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 29

“The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing."”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 24

“If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.”

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Manners from Heaven (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1984), ch. 2, p. 21
Manners from Heaven (1984)

“You talk for talking’s sake,' she hissed. I asked if that was bad. 'I mean it,' the girl replied. 'You talk for talking’s sake.' I had heard her the first time and had understood the words but not the contempt with which they were charged. 'Would you be equally annoyed,' I asked, 'if I danced for dancing’s sake? […] I should have said, 'Would you hate me if I lived for living’s sake?' This would have been the total question — the one to which a full reply could have saved the world.”

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