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The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.
Martin Firrell
The path to liberation is lined with blossoms of joy.
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If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.
Martin Firrell
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When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.
Martin Firrell
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Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.
Martin Firrell
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Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.
Martin Firrell
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I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
Martin Firrell
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Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
Martin Firrell
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Different is not wrong.
Martin Firrell
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Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.
Martin Firrell
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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'.
Martin Firrell
11.
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.
Martin Firrell
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I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.
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I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.
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The other side of reverence is loathing.
Martin Firrell
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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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Security is no replacement for liberty.
Martin Firrell
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This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
Martin Firrell
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If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.
Martin Firrell
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Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.
Martin Firrell
20.
There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.
Martin Firrell
21.
Revolutions have always started in cafés.
Martin Firrell
22.
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.
Martin Firrell
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Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Martin Firrell
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Women are much more honourable than men.
Martin Firrell
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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.
Martin Firrell
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I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.
Martin Firrell
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I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.
Martin Firrell
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It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
Martin Firrell
29.
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
Martin Firrell
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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.
Martin Firrell
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Everyone is as confused as I am.
Martin Firrell
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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.
Martin Firrell
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I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.
Martin Firrell
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I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.
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Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
Martin Firrell
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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?
Martin Firrell