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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. death is one of those things. to live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. the fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

-Damien Hirst

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I Was Taught To Confront Things You

Damien Hirst

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. death is one of those things. to live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. the fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

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We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. never.

You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day. you looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted. the day isn't a happy day. well, what's changed? you know they are the same flowers, it's the same world. something must have changed. well, probably it was you.

I live in new york city. i could never live anywhere else. the events of september 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, i live here and always will. one of my favorite things about new york is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. once i lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. how anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

Someone's killed 100,000 people. we're almost going, "well done! you killed 100,000 people? you must get up very early in the morning! i can't even get down the gym. your diary must look odd: 'get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

Prison was a blessing. going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. it showed me that i wasn't infallible. it showed me that i was just human. it showed me that i can be back with my ghetto brothers i grew up with and have a good time. it taught me to cool out. it taught me patience. it taught me that i didn't ever want to lose my freedom. it taught me that drugs bring on the devil. it taught me to grow up.

Having a hummer is stupid. it's stupid to waste that much gas. it's stupid to waste that much money on gas. it's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. hummers are stupid-looking.

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