Charles Ludlam quotes
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“You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.”
-- Charles LudlamSource : Charles Ludlam (1989). “The Complete Plays of Charles Ludlam”, Harper Perennial
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“If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.”
-- Charles LudlamSource : Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”
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“Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.”
-- Charles LudlamSource : Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”
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“The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.”
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“The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.”
-- Charles LudlamSource : "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".
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“If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.”
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“Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.”
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“Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.”
Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.213, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low”
Source : Song: Sleep Alone, Album: Two Suns, 2009
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“If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.”
Source : Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”
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“The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion”
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“Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.”
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