I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos. Quentin S. Crisp More Quotes by Quentin S. Crisp More Quotes From Quentin S. Crisp 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 buddhistgiving-upwriting It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too. Quentin S. Crisp philosophyfatherchildren [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. Quentin S. Crisp buddhistcatholicvoice Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued. Quentin S. Crisp buddhistbuddhismvoice Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence. Quentin S. Crisp austeritylineshands
