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„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]

“Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.”

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Quentin Crisp kniha The Naked Civil Servant

Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 7

“I never saw Portsmouth by day.”

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Quentin Crisp kniha The Naked Civil Servant

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

“The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.”

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

“We think we write definitively of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing — still in doubt. 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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The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

“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.”

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Zdroj: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 1

“My fingers will not type the words "her money became a burden to her" but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.”

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Quentin Crisp

Zdroj: How to Become a Virgin (1981), Ch. 9