Martin Firrell Quotes

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Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.

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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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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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When we speak plainly of death we stand equal to it.

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The purpose of my life is to try out the ideas I have for it.

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Rain has always been connected in my mind with kindness.

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Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

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There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.

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Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

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This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

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Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

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I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.

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Let's speak of justice as present in the world, as independent and self-perpetuating.

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Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

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I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

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Not power not cruelty not death not winning not fighting not money not oil not war not sex not tyranny: all tyrants fall.

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To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic.

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I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked.

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Surrounded by army, you think you're going to die. You can't shower because they'll find you nude.

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I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

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A grave and sincere apology to the people of Iraq.

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Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

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Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

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There is nothing beautiful or noble about death or fear.

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I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

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