Philip Ridley Quotes

#1. When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

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#2. No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

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#3. We're like . . . like dinosaurs bedazzled by all the pretty lights in the sky, too fucking stupid to realise it's a comet getting closer and closer.

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#4. Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.

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#5. I love you so much I could burst into flames.

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#6. We live our lives between magic and panic.

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#7. When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.

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#8. The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.

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#9. We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir!

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#10. Slit my skull open. Know what it'll be like? Like slitting open the guts of a great white shark. Stuff'll come out like you wouldn't fucking believe.

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