Clint Jones’s Reviews > Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley > Status Update

“you must never tell a lie, for to do so shows that you are afraid of the person to whom you tell it, and I want you to be afraid of nobody”

What seems to be the center of Crowley’s notoriety:

New York lawyer and patron of the arts John Quinn (1870–1924) had collected most of Crowley’s books (but read none of them). He knew “some of them seemed to be the limit, both erotic and blasphemous. I can forgive the blasphemy.”