"I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away."

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Source : Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

Derek Jarman

#Pain Quotes #Taken Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire”
“When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.”
“We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.”

Source : Source: libyadiary.wordpress.com
“Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.”
“Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.”
“The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.”
“A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.”

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