“If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.”

—  Quentin Crisp

Manners from Heaven (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1984), ch. 2, p. 21
Manners from Heaven (1984)

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