Top 32 Martin Firrell Quotes
#1. This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
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#2. I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.
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#3. It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.
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#6. Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
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#8. Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.
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#9. There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.
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#10. I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.
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#13. If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.
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#14. War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.
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#15. I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.
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#18. I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.
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#21. Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
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#22. Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
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#23. I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven't had at least that, what have you had?
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#24. When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.
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#25. I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.
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#26. If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.
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#27. I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.
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#29. If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.
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#30. How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.
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#31. Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.
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#32. Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
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