Quentin S. Crisp: "Saya merasa hampir seolah-olah saya dilahirkan dala...

"Saya merasa hampir seolah-olah saya dilahirkan dalam kekosongan tak berdosa, dan kemudian harus menerima kenyataan bahwa sebenarnya, saya dilahirkan di tengah-tengah sejarah - normalitas yang agak suram pada tahun 70-an, yang memang, memang, mempertahankan beberapa jejak keluguan manusia, tetapi juga disandang oleh setan pengalaman."

--- Quentin S. Crisp

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I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.