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Derek Jarman quotes

British Director January 31, 1942 – February 19, 1994

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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman quote: "Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!"
Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! Derek Jarman
If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face. Derek Jarman
I walk in this gardenholding the hands of dead friends. Old age came quickly for my frosted generation, cold, cold, cold they died so silently. Derek Jarman
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman quote: "I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying."
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman quote: "Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social..."
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. Derek Jarman
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman quote: "The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or..."
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. Derek Jarman

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