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Dedicated to the memory of
Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations

Image: front cover of the book 'Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations'.
The image of this book was contributed to the site by Maurice Heerdink. Thanks Maurice.
Published : 1989

Author : Quentin Crisp (Edited by Amy Appleby)

"Ideas of being gay " Quentin Crisp has written, "have altered more rapidly in the past century than in all of previous recorded time. " Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations dramatically documents that change through quotations - both historical and contemporary - from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Woody Allen, Mae West and Rita Mae Brown, Michelangelo and Margaret Mead.
"The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia and sometimes culminates in death." - Quentin Crisp