Quotes by Jarman, Derek

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thous >>

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion >>

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that >>

Quotations about Twentieth Century

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience >>

I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying o >>

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant >>

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.

Jarman, Derek