# Quote — Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

> The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

- Author: [Quentin Crisp](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp.md)
- Book: [The Naked Civil Servant](https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant.md)
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## More from this book

> To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw — to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer — if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions — we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.

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> Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

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> Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

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